NEW: Prisoner swap involves people from the U.S. Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus, Turkish government says – Reuters
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Russia and the United States have agreed to swap prisoners in an extraordinary multipart deal, according to a senior Biden administration official.
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.
Gershkovich, 32, was arrested by Russian authorities in March 2023 for espionage, a charge he and U.S. officials flatly deny, with President Joe Biden saying Gershkovich was targeted for being a journalist and an American.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/russia-agrees-free-evan-gershkovich-paul-whelan-multi/story?id=112446743
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-01/us-reporter-to-be-freed-by-russia-in-major-prisoner-swap?embedded-checkout=true
h/t NDFarm