INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have captured a United States citizen for allegedly taking part in pro-Ukrainian rallies,
accusations that his friends and family deny, The Guardian reported Wednesday.Suedi Murekezi, 35, is the third American national known to be
He had moved to Ukraine in pursuit of a cryptocurrency venture after serving eight years in the United States Air Force, according to The
circulating on the separatist Telegram channels
was born in Rwanda and immigrated to the United States after the 1994 genocide, faces the added danger of racial discrimination, his
friends say.Murekezi is reportedly being held with two other United States military veterans, Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh, who had been
unlikely to be tried as a mercenary as there is no evidence to suggest he had fought against Russian soldiers, The Guardian reported.The
in evacuating Americans from Afghanistan and Ukraine, hassaid it had rescued a number of United States citizens alongside Ukrainian
