Vedant Patel, Deputy Spokesperson of the US Department of State, said that the US Embassy in Moscow requested an official notification from the Russian authorities regarding the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. DEA News.
According to him, the Russian side is “obligated to provide this within the framework of our bilateral consular agreement.”
Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, said that journalist Gershkovich, who was arrested for espionage, provided consular access
Before that, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov declarationthat the question of exchanging the journalist Gershkovich with the United States is not yet on the table.
About the arrest of Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg in mid-March to come to the Urals, March 30, to collect material on people’s attitudes towards PMC Wagner reported Russia’s FSB. The intelligence service said that the journalist collected information about the activities of one of the enterprises in the military-industrial complex of the country, on the instruction of the United States, a criminal case was filed against him under an article about espionage. WSJ statedConcerned for his reporter’s safety in connection with his detention .