The US State Department considers Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), to be illegally detained in Russia. This was expressed by Vedant Patel, deputy head of the press service of the US State Department.
“Gershkovich is being held illegally in Russia,” he says. TASS her words.
It was noted that if a US citizen was deemed “illegally held”, some departments began developing a strategy for his release.
Gershkovich was detained in Yekaterinburg on March 30, 2023. in the FSB declarationHe said he was collecting classified information on behalf of the American government.
In contrast, businessman Viktor Bout, released from an American prison hopedThat Gershkovich would be replaced by one of the Russians serving a prison sentence in the United States.
At the same time, the head of the State Duma commission Vasily Piskarev to investigate the facts of foreign intervention in Russia’s internal affairs. AdditionalThat the campaign launched in the West to support Gershkovich is propaganda.