A Minnesota man has been taken prisoner by Russian troops as he was trying to flee Ukraine, his distraught mother told The Post.

Tyler Jacob, 28, of Winona, took a job teaching English in Ukraine in November and was living with his wife and her 11-year-old daughter in Kherson. He got on a bus Saturday destined for Turkey but was detained by Russian troops at a checkpoint in Armiansk in northern Crimea, his mother Tina Hauser said.

“It’s been very stressful, I break down and I cry at random times,” Hauser said early Thursday. “I’m hardly sleeping, I hardly eat, I’m constantly thinking of him and I’m worried. This is my worst nightmare coming true – he’s been taken prisoner during the war.”

Jacob left his wife and daughter behind in Kherson, Hauser said. The US Embassy in Moscow told Hauser her son is the second US citizen to be detained by Russian troops during its invasion of Ukraine.

“The last I heard they were searching for him,” Hauser said, adding that she spoke Wednesday to Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is working with the State Department to track down Jacob as soon as possible.

“I just want my son to know I love him and I’m doing everything I can to find him,” Hauser said. “I will go to the end of the Earth to find him.”

The avid outdoorsman can defend himself if necessary, but Hauser said she cannot stop imagining the worst.

“I want him to be safe and to stay strong and to know that mom loves him so much,” Hauser told The Post.

Hauser said she and her son had discussed his exit from Ukraine the week before Russia invaded the country, but he resisted her pleas to leave.

“He kept on reassuring me, ‘Mom it’s going to be fine, it’s going to be OK,’” Hauser said. “And then the war broke out.”

Jacob’s father, meanwhile, told WCCO that his son was the lone American on the bus when he was taken into custody.

He now fears his son may now be used as a pawn by Russia after he appeared in media reports there.

“They eventually made a video with him as the subject about how well they were treating the prisoners over there,” Quinn said. “It’s heart-wrenching.”

Klobuchar told WCCO in a statement that her office is doing “everything” to locate the Minnesota man.

“My office is working with the State Department and U.S. Embassy in Moscow to find him and resolve this situation as quickly as possible,” the Minnesota senator said.

Klobuchar’s press secretary said Wednesday there was no update in the case. The State Department said it’s aware of the report, but has no further comment, citing privacy considerations.

With Post wires