Usa news: U.s. Air Force veteran, told ABC News he had been subject to electric shocks and had been beaten by his captors before being released from prison in October. Though technically free, he had remained trapped in a Russian-controlled area of the embattled Donetsk region of Ukraine until Wednesday’s exchange.
Murekezi said the Russians accused him of being a member of the CIA and that while in prison he and other Americans were given only minimal food and water. Asked what he was looking forward to most when he gets back to his home in Minnesota, he said “a peanut butter sandwich.”
Two other U.S. military veterans, Alabama residents Alexander Drueke and Andy Tai Huynh, were freed in a prisoner exchange in September. They returned to tell of “intensive interrogation” at the hands of Russian soldiers. Drueke said the treatment was brutal.
