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US & Russia swap prisoners amid Ukraine war tensions
short by Athira Sasidharan / on Thursday, 28 April, 2022
The US and Russia on Wednesday swapped prisoners amid their most tense relations in decades over the Ukraine war. Ex-US Marine Trevor Reed, held in Russia since 2019, was exchanged for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who'd been serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the US. Reed was jailed for assaulting two Russian police officers in Moscow.
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