Russia agrees to free Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan in multi-country prisoner swap
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The exchange was happening Thursday.

The swap will allow the two wrongfully detained American citizens held by Moscow, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, to return home.

  •  tardigrada   ( @tardigrada@beehaw.org ) OP
    5•1 month ago

    That’s right :-)

    ‘Trump loses his hostage’: Biden applauded for securing release of Gershkovich and Whelan — (archived)

    The Biden administration has secured the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan from Russian prisons as part of a prisoner swap, which wipes away one of Donald Trump’s baffling campaign promises.

    Trump had raised eyebrows by suggesting multiple times that he had a deal in place with Vladimir Putin to release the journalist from detention if he’s re-elected, saying the Russian president “will do that for me, and I don’t believe he’ll do it for anyone else,” but president Joe Biden beat him to the punch and got the pair released.