American teacher held by Russians for 10 days details detention in exclusive interview

An American who was held in Russian detention for 10 days is talking out on his time behind bars, detailing the whole ordeal as stress between the U.S. and Russia mounts to an all-time excessive.

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Tyler Jacob, a Minnesota native who was educating in Ukraine, joined “Fox & Buddies First” for an unique interview to debate his detention and why he was taken into custody. 

“I spotted that after they began questioning me that they… could not discover something towards me as a result of… I am simply an American instructor who chased after his spouse abroad,” Jacob informed co-host Todd Piro. 

“I used to be okay after the third day of them questioning me as a result of I knew nothing was going to occur, but it surely was… a scary time to be caught in a spot like Russian jail,” he continued. 

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Jacob was taken into Russian custody whereas attempting to flee Putin’s struggle. He took a bus from the place he was dwelling together with his spouse and her daughter in Kherson, Ukraine, and was finally detained by Russian forces when attempting to flee to Turkey. 

“They informed me that the rationale they took me off the bus was as a result of I did not present them my passport, which I imagine that they noticed that I used to be the one American amongst all these Turkish residents, and so they determined that they thought I used to be a spy,” Jacob stated. 

“So that they pulled me apart, made up one thing after which detained me for 10 days,” he continued. 

The questioning over his occupation didn’t cease there. It continued throughout his detention. 

“For 3 and a half hours, he simply regularly informed me, you already know who that is, and I saved telling him, I do not know who that is, and at that time, I believed I used to be going to be caught in Russia ceaselessly,” Jacob stated. 

When requested about the very first thing he did after arriving residence on American soil, Jacob stated he purchased a Coke.

“The second that I tasted that again right here, American Coke, it felt like heaven,” he stated.