US volunteer fighters captured in Ukraine could face death penalty, says Russia

Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, from Alabama have been taken into detention in Donetsk

The Kremlin has said that two captured US volunteers are not covered by the Geneva conventions and could face the death penalty.

We are talking about mercenaries who threatened the lives of our service personnel," the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said. And not only ours, but also the service personnel of the DPR and LPR," he added, referencing the Russian-controlled self-proclaimed peoples' republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.