CNN: Over 20 US citizens missing in action on Ukraine's contact line
www.pravda.com.ua
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:07:20 +0200
More than 20 US citizens have gone missing in action on the contact line in Ukraine, with their number increasing over the past six months.
Source CNN, as reported by European Pravda Details The CNN article focuses on the role of foreign nationals, particularly US citizens, in the war in Ukraine and the challenges involved in recovering bodies from the battlefield and repatriating the remains of deceased American volunteers.
The CNN report also claims that, over the last six months, the bodies of at least five American volunteers could not be retrieved from the battlefield.
Two of them were eventually repatriated from Russianoccupied territories to Ukrainiancontrolled land after prolonged negotiations.
Lauren Guillome, an American living in Kyiv and working with the nonprofit RT Weatherman Foundation, which helps foreign families locate missing loved ones, told CNN that she is currently handling cases involving 88 deceased or missing foreign nationals of 18 nationalities, half of whom are Americans.
Guillome noted that the true number of deceased American volunteers in Ukraine remains unclear.
Background Filip Antosiak, a 19yearold Polish volunteer who left his studies in the UK to join a Ukrainian drone strike unit, was recently killed in action near the city of Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.
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