Footage from Russia’s security service shows US and German nationals boarding a plane before the exchange
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has released a fresh video showing the moments before the 16 people released by Moscow to the West were about to fly to Türkiye for the planned exchange.
Moscow and Washington have swapped a total of 26 prisoners in the biggest such exchange in the modern history. According to the FSB, eight Russian nationals held in the US, Germany, Norway, Poland and Slovenia, and two children returned in exchange for individuals who’d “acted in the interests of foreign states to the detriment of the security of the Russian Federation.”
Footage published by the FSB shows Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich being driven to an airport in a bus before boarding a plane together with a former US Marine, Paul Whelan, and a German national, Rico Krieger, as well as some other prisoners.
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