The Latest Breaking News from Paul Whelan

Prigozhin threatens to pull Wagner troops out of Bakhmut; Kyiv downs own drone after it lost control

The U.S. ambassador to Russia has visited Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a remote Russian prison

U.S. ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy on Thursday visited American citizen Paul Whelan in the prison he has been held in Mordovia in eastern Russia, the U.S. embassy said.

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The new sanctions target officials responsible for the arrest and wrongful detention of US nationals

Russia’s foreign ministry says it denied a US consular visit request for journalist amid growing calls for his release.

The U_S_ has brought the sister of an American imprisoned in Russia to the U_N_ Security Council for a session being chaired by the Russian foreign minister, urging him to “look into her eyes and see her suffering.”

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Kyiv's allies on Monday slammed Russia for a Security Council meeting chaired by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about protecting the United Nations charter, which Moscow itself violated by invading Ukraine.

At the UN Security Council, US envoy says Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich have been used by Moscow as ‘human pawns’.

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Washington's United Nations ambassador made a direct plea to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday to release a detained US journalist and a former US Marine.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting chaired by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is "causing massive suffering and devastation to the country and its people" and fueling "global economic dislocation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic." "Tensions between major powers are at an…