Trevor Reed traveled to the country after being released by Moscow in a 2022 prisoner swap with Washington
Former US Marine Trevor Reed has been sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court for fighting as a mercenary for Kiev, Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced. Prior to traveling to Ukraine, Reed had been released from a Russian jail in 2022 in a prisoner exchange with the US.
Russia’s top criminal investigation body said on Wednesday that Reed had been sentenced to 14 and a half years and placed on the international wanted list.
The investigation and the court established that Reed had arrived in Ukraine in the late spring or early summer of 2023, where on July 25 “he voluntarily joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a mercenary,” the committee said in a statement.
After receiving additional training and military equipment in Ukraine, the former Marine took part in combat operations against Russian forces in the Donetsk People’s…