Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich, American Veteran Paul Whelan Released by Russia After Prisoner Swap With US
By Fox News // August 1, 2024
ABOVE VIDEO: Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall reports on the expected prisoner trade involving Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whelan
(FOX NEWS) – Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is free.
Gershkovich and American veteran Paul Whelan are in U.S. custody after a massive swap of political prisoners involving the United States and Russia, a senior administration official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday morning. Alsu Kurmasheva, another American citizen, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, a green card holder, were also freed.
“Their brutal ordeal is over, and they are free,” President Biden said at the White House, flanked by their family members.
Gershkovich, 32, was arrested on March 29, 2023, while reporting on a trip to the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg and accused of espionage. The Biden administration declared him “wrongfully detained” and The Wall Street Journal and U.S. government both emphatically denied the charges, calling them absurd on their face.
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