INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia exchanged jailed ex-U.S
Marine Trevor Reed for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was in an American prison on drug smuggling charges, the Foreign Ministry in
Novosti news agency reported.Reed, 30, was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2020 on charges of assaulting a police officer while drunk
the charges against them.Reed had been one of three U.S
his health in recent months, and U.S
Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan said this month that he was hospitalized with tuberculosis-like symptoms."Our family has been living a
Today, our prayers have been answered and Trevor is safely on his way back to the United States," Reed's family said in a statement
President Donald Trump to pardon the pilot in 2017.U.S
President Joe Biden said negotiations to secure Reed's release required "difficult decisions.""The negotiations that allowed us to bring
Trevor home required difficult decisions that I do not take lightly," Biden said in a statement
"His safe return is a testament to the priority my Administration places on bringing home Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained
