U.S. prisoners return home in swap between U.S., Russia
Their families and President Joe Biden were there late Thursday night as the three arrived at Joint Base Andrews.
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Their families and President Joe Biden were there late Thursday night as the three arrived at Joint Base Andrews.
A plane carrying Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva landed at a military base in Maryland after they were freed by Russia in a prisoner exchange.
The release comes less than two weeks after a Russian court found Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich guilty of espionage. Paul Whelan was arrested in 2018 when he was in Moscow to attend a friend's wedding and convicted of spying.
The Biden administration announced the release of three U.S. citizens from Russia, including Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, as part of a complex 24-person prisoner swap.
The Wall Street Journal calls reporter Evan Gershkovich's conviction on spying charges in Russia "bogus," but it may clear the way for a prisoner swap.
He was arrested in March 2023 while reporting for the Wall Street Journal and is accused of spying for the CIA.
Evan Gershkovich has been held for over a year in a Moscow prison.
Gershkovich is facing espionage charges in Russia that he, the Wall Street Journal, and the U.S. government strongly deny. He faces up to 20 years in a prison colony if convicted.
Evan Gershkovich was detained on March 29 last year on suspicion of espionage. The Wall Street Journal honored him Friday with a mostly blank front page.
Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last March while on a reporting trip there.
"You understand when I say that I can't do an interview, which means that I can't answer any questions," Whelan told a Russia Today reporter.
Analysts have noted that Moscow may be using jailed Americans as bargaining chips in soaring U.S.-Russian tensions over the Kremlin's military operation in Ukraine.
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