Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan, and Russian-American radio journalist Alsu Kurmasheva will be released from Russia in a prisoner exchange that was announced Thursday, according to senior officials in the Biden administration, CBS News reported.
Gershkovich and Whelan were imprisoned on espionage charges that were broadly seen as fabricated. Kurmasheva was detained on charges of ostensibly spreading false information about the Russian army.
