u.s. citizens home? well, in fact, the state department put out a statement saying that they have seen photos and videos of these two u.s. citizens reportedly captured by russian military forces in ukraine. we are closely monitoring the situation and our hearts go out to their families during this difficult time. we are in contact with ukrainian authorities, the international committee of the red cross, and with the families themselves, due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment on these cases. this is typical of state department statements about, for instance, i have seen it before with americans being held in syria as well. there clearly is a lot of back channel communications going on, but state department officials on these very sensitive issues tend to be quite tight lipped. jake. yeah, ben wedeman in kramatorsk, ukraine, thank you so much. joining us is bunny drewky, the mother of one of the americans being held captive in ukraine. you just saw his pi
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