Marine veteran and North Texan Trevor Reed is a free man Wednesday after more than two years in a Russian prison -- for a charge U.S. officials have called 'preposterous.' 📰 Read more:
The swap seemed unlikely to herald any larger breakthrough between Washington and Moscow. A senior Biden administration official cautioned that the negotiations centered on a"discrete set of prisoner issues" and did not represent a change to the U.S. government's condemnation of Russia's violence against Ukraine.
Russia had sought Yaroshenko's return for years while also rejecting entreaties by high-level U.S. officials to release Reed,and whose health had recently been worsening, according to his family. The U.S. government does not typically embrace such exchanges for fear that it might encourage foreign governments to take additional Americans as prisoners as a way to extract concessions and to avoid a potential false equivalency between an unjustly detained American -- which U.S. officials believe Reed was -- and a properly convicted criminal.
"We believe that that meeting with the president is what made it happen," Joey Reed told CNN."Which is what we had said all along -- if we could just speak to the president, he's that kind of person."TREVOR REED'S FAMILY'S STATEMENTNelson Mandella once said, “it always seems impossible until it is done.” For the past days, Trevor has been wrongfully detained for a “crime” the U.S.
We’d like to thank our wonderful Congressman, August Pfluger for his unwavering support, Congressman McCaul, Senator Cornyn, Congresswoman Jackson Lee, Leader McCarthy, Congressman Castro, and so many others who worked together in a bipartisan manner to bring Trevor home.
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