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U.S. volunteers rescue victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

A Michigan man living in Ukraine with his wife and mother-in-law spent more than a month in custody after Russian invaders accused him of being a spy.

Kirillo Alexandrov, 27, was about to be transferred to Moscow, where he could have been imprisoned for decades, when a Florida-based nonprofit snatched him up last month and brought him to safety.

Mr. Alexandrov, who was reunited with his family in Poland, is among about 2,000 people who have been rescued from the warzone in Ukraine by the volunteers of Project DYNAMO, a Florida-based private group initially formed to secure the release of Afghan allies left behind after the U.