Live updates: Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan rejoin with families in U.S. after enormous detainee trade

 Live updates: Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan rejoin with families in U.S. after enormous detainee trade

President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris, who welcomed the Americans upon their appearance, said partners and discretion assumed a pivotal part in bringing them home.

 

What we know

    Four U.S. occupants have been let out of jail in Russia as a feature of a huge trade affecting seven countries and 24 individuals.
    President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris welcomed Money Road Diary correspondent Evan Gershkovich, previous Marine Paul WhelanRadio Free Europe/Radio Freedom writer Alsu Kurmasheva as they showed up in the U.S. late this evening. Russia additionally delivered Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who had been imprisoned on injustice charges for quite some time.
    Gershkovich was wrongly condemned to 16 years in a greatest security jail last month after he was viewed as at fault for undercover work for a situation that the Diary and the U.S. government censured as a joke.
    Whelan, 54, who had been kept since he visited Russia for a companion's wedding in 2018, was likewise sentenced for surveillance and had been carrying out a 16-year punishment in a correctional settlement. read 2 min...