“There are thousands of Americans and NATO ally-citizens that are left in Ukraine right now and it’s about to be Soviet-occupied Russia,” Stern, a former Navy Lt. Commander, told DailyMail.com.

He said there were 23 in two vehicles, including an American woman who arrived in Kiev for her father’s funeral only days ago.

Stern said the individuals were still in Ukraine for a variety of reasons,.

“None of them thought this would happen. There is just total disbelief. Deep down, we thought ‘he’s not Saddam Hussein. He is not that bad.’ But just like that, he achieved war criminal status,” Stern said on Russia President Putin.

He explained that in some perspectives, evacuating Americans from Afghanistan wasn’t has difficult since the Taliban at that time wasn’t using air missiles and such.

The report explained, “Stern said he has not asked the group if they feel abandoned by Biden, but he sided with the U.S. military decision not to ‘rush in to World War III.’ ‘I actually agree right now from the U.S. government perspective that at least for now, in these early days, that the military is not here.'”

He noted Biden went on television to say, “leave now, we will not come and get you.”

“As much as that pains me to hear, I appreciate the honesty of those statements. I haven’t asked them [if they’ve felt abandoned] … but I can tell you at least two people have cried in my arms,” he told the publication.

He said he expects “the mess and chaos of Kabul times 100.”

His organization has a website presence, at www.projectdynamo.org.

Flights all were canceled in the region as the airports were shut down by the missile attacks.

The scenario in Kabul was slightly different, as American troops had been on the ground, but abruptly were pulled out on Biden’s orders.

That left at risk the hundreds of American citizens who were still there, the thousands of Afghanis who supported the U.S., as well as all that war machinery, including Black Hawk helicopters and Humvees.