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Gershkovich was released Thursday in an elaborate prisoner swap involving two dozen prisoners from at least six countries.

News reports this week quoted anonymous sources from the US and Ukraine that the first six F-16 jets had been supplied by the Netherlands to the war-torn country and that more were expected to be supplied by Denmark.

Top Republican expresses concerns over Biden administration's Russian prisoner exchange, urging caution and bipartisan calls for detained Americans' release.

Vadim Krasikov, the Russian at the center of a massive prisoner swap, has long topped the Kremlin’s list for an exchange

The United States and Russia have made their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history

A prisoner swap organized by the Biden administration got the release of three Americans and one U.S. green card holder Thursday from Russia.

When Washington and Moscow exchange prisoners, it usually comes after months of secret, back-channel negotiations

The United States and Russia have completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan in a multinational deal that set some two dozen people free

Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter sentenced to 16 years in Russia on disputed espionage charges, was released Thursday in a major multinational prisoner swap after spending more than a year behind bars. Originally from Russia, the journalist returned in 2017 to the country of his parents, Soviet Jews…