American Citizen Who Served In US Air Force Has Been Detained In Russian Territory
Sele said his brother, who received permission to call his family after being captured, told his loved ones that he is not injured. Suedi also said he’s being held by the Donetsk People’s Republic, a separatist territory in eastern Ukraine supported by Russia.
Bryan Stern, co-founder of a nonprofit that leads rescue operations in Ukraine, said Suedi didn’t do anything wrong.
“His only crime was being American,” the Project Dynamo co-founder told the Times.
Sele said two of his brother’s closest friends fled to Poland and Georgia after Suedi’s arrest.
“They were very, very scared,” he said.