When Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh had been captured by Russians in Ukraine over the summer time and later held in a "black site" for a month,
the place the 2 Alabama males mentioned they endured each day torture and lived on spoiled bread and soiled water, they anticipated demise at any second.
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"I'm going to die from this example, or they're going to kill me," Drueke mentioned he thought throughout that point.
"We prayed for demise. We simply needed to die. We simply needed it to finish," Huynh added.
Of their first broadcast interview collectively, the 2 U.S. navy veterans informed ABC Information that, though they had been from the identical state,
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they didn't know one another after they met in Ukraine, the place they'd traveled to supply their companies, both in humanitarian work or coaching troops.
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The interview with Drueke and Huynh will air Thursday on "Good Morning America" and throughout ABC Information.
"I didn't go around there to explicitly battle. Yet, I comprehended that that was an undeniable chance," Drueke said.
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What he and Huynh shared, he said, was worry that the Russian attack of Ukraine would find success and afterward spread across Europe.