There is a good article in Rolling Stone that recounts the American and other foreign fighter losses in Ukraine. Recommend reading the whole article: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/stephen-zabielski-russia-ukraine-conflict-1371094/
To summarize the losses:
- Two American’s have been killed.
- Willy Joseph Concel, Jr., 22, died in late April. He was an ex-Marine from New York/Tennessee with no combat experience.
- Stephen D. Zabielski, 52, died 15 May 2022. From New York/Florida. Served in the Gulf War (1991) with 101st Airborne Division.
- “Three” other western foreigners have been killed in combat.
- Ronald Vogelaar, 55, Dutch, killed by shelling on May 4 and buried in Kharkov.
- Bjorn Benamin Clavis, German.
- Wilried Blerio, 32, France.
- A humanitarian volunteer from Australia.
- Two Americans have been captured:
- Alexander John-Robert Drueke, 39, from Tuscaloosa Alabama. Former staff-sergeant, U.S. Army, served two tours in Iraq.
- Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Hartselle, Alabama. Ex-Marine with four years of service but no combat experience.
- Three foreign fighters have been captured in Mariupol by the DPR and sentenced to death.
- Aiden Aslin, 28, English
- Shaun Pinner, 46, English
- Saaudun Brahim, 21, Moroccan (he is not mentioned in the Rolling Stone article).
- One American is missing:
- Grady Kurpasi, 49, a retired Marine captain from Wilmington, NC. Three tours Iraq.
- The Ukrainians claim the International Legion has as many as twenty thousand fighters from over fifty countries.
- Russia is claiming 6,956 “foreign mercenaries” from 64 countries (see Day 117 post below).
Oh, and the Kremlin press secretary is saying that the Geneva conventions do not apply to the two captured Americans.
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