Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Paul Whelan after their release from Russia in a prisoner swap on Aug. 1, 2024. U.S. Government Photo Among the prisoner releases in recent years, Whelan was the first to be detained in Russia in 2018. He was convicted on espionage charges, that ...
Russia-US prisoner swap explained The US and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday in a multinational deal that set 24 people free. Sky's Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett explains. Friday 2 August 2024 21:40, UK Russia USA ...
Russia Takes Prisoner Swap Proposals With U.S. Seriously - Kremlin More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends an annual end-of-year news conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, Russia, December 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina (Reuters) -...
The threereturned to the United Stateslate Thursday night as part of a 24-person prisoner swap — one of the largest since the end of the Cold War — among the U.S., Russia, Germany and three other Western countries. The deal is a significant and hard-fought win for the Biden administ...
Return to Live Coverage US-Russia prisoner swap underway Russia agreed to free several Americans, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, in a multi-country prisoner swap. ABC News' Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce reports. ...
President Bidencalled the prisoner swap deal a "feat of diplomacy." "We’ve negotiated the release of 16 people from Russia — including five Germans and seven Russian citizens who were political prisoners in their own country. Some of these women and men have been unjustly held for years...
US officials on Thursday insisted that the prisoner swap was by no means the advent of a new detente between Washington and Moscow. Instead, they maintained, it was a deal driven by cold calculations of national interest, a deal in which every side got something it ...
Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan released in massive US-Russia prisoner exchange Germany also received 12 prisoners who were held in Russia. The prisoner swap involved not just the U.S., Turkey, Germany and Russia, but also Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Belarus. ...
It marks the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history, in a deal involving 24 people, including Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan.
It felt like a Cold War spy movie, but the prisoner exchange between Russia and the US was the result of a delicate act of diplomacy more than a year in the making.