Russia and US release video of Gershkovich, Whelan and others being released in prisoner swap.
But behind the scenes, months of nail-bitingly tense negotiations, near misses and fraught moral compromises had been playing out in the run-up to the largest East-West prisoner swap for decades.
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was released from detention in Russia, waves upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, US on Thursday But in hush-hush meetings on the fringes of other diplomatic gatherings, President Biden eventually convinced Chancellor Olaf Scholz to agree to it. Yet as this exchanged proved, spymasters in London, Washington and Moscow are still talking to each other.
President Biden shared this photo shortly after the release with the caption: 'After enduring unimaginable suffering and uncertainty, the Americans detained in Russia are safe, free, and have begun their journeys back into the arms of their families' His ordeal finally ended at a quarter to midnight local time when a plane carrying him, Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and others landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
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Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan And Alsu Kurmasheva Land In US After Russia Prisoner SwapNick Visser is a senior reporter at HuffPost. Originally based in New York, he now lives in Sydney. Send tips to nick.visserhuffpost.com
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