
Early this morning, Putin’s hatchet men abducted and arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who had the courage to shine a spotlight just this week on how “Russia’s economy is starting to come undone,” closely tracking the findings of my team over the last few months on the implosion of the Russian economy, amidst reports that he is working on follow-up investigations of the Wagner Group and the Russian defense supply chain.
This courageous journalist, an American citizen, now faces 20 years in Russian hard-labor prisons after merely telling the truth about the collapse of Russia’s economy and defense establishment.