U.s. And Russia Free Evan Gershkovich And Paul Whelan In Prisoner Swap

(WASHINGTON) — The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free, according to officials in Turkey, where the exchange took place. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The sprawling deal is the latest in a series of prisoner swaps negotiated between Russia and the U.S.

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