Deal includes political prisoners and journalists held in Russia and Belarus being swapped for Russians held in west
A Wall Street Journal reporter, Gershkovich became the first western correspondent to be arrested for espionage since the fall of the Soviet Union. Detained in March 2023 while on a reporting trip to Ekaterinburg, Russian authorities claim he was collecting information for the CIA, but have never made public any of their supposed evidence. Gershkovich, his newspaper and the US state department have all denied the charges.
Late last year, Whelan’s family said he had been hit in the face by another prisoner, breaking his glasses.A 47-year-old editor for Radio Liberty, based in Prague, Kurmasheva is a joint US-Russian citizen. She was arrested last year during a family visit to the city of Kazan, and accused of failing to register as a “foreign agent” and for spreading “false information” about the country’s armed forces, under harsh censorship laws enacted after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In his interview with Tucker Carlson earlier this year, Putin described Krasikov as “a person who eliminated a bandit in one of the European capitals, due to patriotic sentiments”.Anna Dultseva and Artem Dultsev were deep-cover Russian spies who are believed to have carried out tasks for Russian intelligence across Europe.The pair were “illegals” – deep-cover Russian spies who are dispatched abroad on long-term missions that can last decades, posing as foreigners.
Their two minor children are also believed to have been included in the swap. The two had been taken into foster care after their arrest and continued to attend school in Ljubljana.Another Russian illegal, Mikushin was arrested in Norway, where he used the Brazilian identity of José Assis Giammaria. He wasin the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø, where he worked as a researcher at a university, ironically engaged in assessing hybrid security threats.
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