The Latest Breaking News from Paul Whelan

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.”

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

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…

US journalist to remain in detention until trial at end of May on charges of espionage

Ambassador says reporter is ‘in good health and remains strong’ as dozens of countries voice concern over his arrest.

The family of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich received a handwritten letter from him on Friday — the first direct contact with them since his arrest in the end of March.