Indications are growing of an imminent prisoner exchange between Russia and the West

The Kremlin today declined to comment on reports that a prisoner exchange between Russia and the US is about to begin. There were increasing indications today of a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Belarus on the one hand, and the US, Germany, Slovenia and Britain on the other. Such an exchange, if it took place, would be the most important between Moscow and the West since the Cold War. “I continue to make no comment,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier at a regular press briefing. Fox News reported that jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerskovich is set to return to the US in a prisoner exchange, possibly later today. Aircraft tracking website Flightradar24 showed that a special Russian government plane that has been used in a previous US-Russia prisoner exchange flew from Moscow to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which […]
Source: News Beast

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