EGN NEWS DESK
Russia freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in addition to jailed Kremlin critics within the largest prisoner change with the West in many years, in return for a prized murderer sought by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Now, their brutal ordeal is over they usually’re free,” U.S. President Joe Biden stated at a White House look with relations of a few of the launched prisoners. “The deal that made this potential was a feat of diplomacy and friendship.”
The swap, which happened on the airport tarmac in Ankara, Turkey, included two dozen individuals, 16 going to the West and eight being returned to Russia. Among them had been different American residents in addition to Russians convicted of crimes and imprisoned within the U.S., Germany, Poland, Norway and Slovenia.
