Trevor Reed

WASHINGTON – Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted ...

It comes even as families of detainees who have met over the last year with administration officials had described them as cool to the idea of an exchange. Reed was later sentenced to nine years in prison, though his family has maintained his innocence and the U.S. government has described him as unjustly detained. It was unclear what if any impact Wednesday's action might have on their cases. And I was delighted to be able to share with them the good news about Trevor’s freedom," Biden's statement said. The two prisoners were swapped in a European country. In a statement, the Reed family thanked Biden "for making the decision to bring Trevor home" as well as other administration officials and Bill Richardson, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations whom the family said traveled to Moscow in the hours before the Ukraine war began in hopes of securing Reed's release.

Reed had been held in Russia since 2019. He was exchanged for pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring to import ...

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American Trevor Reed, a US citizen and former Marine who had been detained in Russia since 2019, has been released in a prisoner swap.

to the case of American Paul Whelan, a US citizen and former Marine who was detained at a Moscow hotel in December 2018 and arrested on espionage charges, which he has consistently and vehemently denied. He said Reed went to a prison hospital but did not receive treatment and was then sent back to solitary confinement. And I was delighted to be able to share with them the good news about Trevor's freedom," President Joe Biden said in a statement. I heard in the voices of Trevor's parents how much they've worried about his health and missed his presence. "Today, we welcome home Trevor Reed and celebrate his return to the family that missed him dearly. Reed and his family have denied the charges against him.

In a prisoner exchange, Moscow said it freed Trevor Reed for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. Biden said negotiations to bring Reed home "required ...

U.S. officials said Reed’s health was a driving element in the decision to accelerate months-long negotiations over his case. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan has described the evidence used to convict Reed as “ ridiculous.” Russian prison service said Reed’s condition was “satisfactory.” “Is President Biden’s failure to bring Paul home an admission that some cases are too hard to solve?” His lawyer, Alexei Tarasov, told Russian outlets that arrangements for the trade were finalized last week and that Yaroshenko was now heading home. They said last month their son told them he was “coughing up blood multiple times a day, running a fever, and still experiencing pain in his lung.” “Today, we welcome home Trevor Reed and celebrate his return to the family that missed him dearly,” Biden said in a statement. U.S. officials have repeatedly accused Russia of holding Americans like Reed as potential leverage in a swap. The exchange signaled that Washington and Moscow retain the ability to engage in basic diplomatic business even with relations at rock bottom. Reed’s detention stemmed from a drunken night in Russia that he said he did not remember. “This is a discrete issue on which we were able to make an arrangement with the Russians,” a senior U.S. official said.

Reed traveled to Russia in the summer of 2019 with his Russian girlfriend to learn the language. That August, Russian police arrested him for intoxication ...

Whelan is from Michigan and was arrested in Russia in 2018, accused of spying and sentenced to 17 years. “I’m beyond relieved Trevor will return home to his family in Texas, who were relentless in the fight to secure his release and never gave up hope. Reed traveled to Russia in the summer of 2019 with his Russian girlfriend to learn the language. His safe return is a testament to the priority my Administration places on bringing home Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained abroad," Biden said in a statement. That August, Russian police arrested him for intoxication and took him to a jail to sober up. He did mention in his statement another American detained in Russia.

For Reed's release, President Joe Biden agreed to free Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiracy to ...

He was later sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison. He was later sentenced to nine years in prison. The family also said they would continue to advocate on behalf of Paul Whelan, another U.S. Marine who is serving a 16-year sentence in Russia. Reed was accused of assaulting a Russian officer and detained by authorities there in 2019. For Reed's release, President Joe Biden agreed to free Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States. - For Reed's release, President Joe Biden agreed to free Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States.

Foreign Ministry in Moscow says a "lengthy negotiation process" resulted in the former U.S. Marine being released in exchange for a Russian pilot jailed on ...

The U.S. government had raised concerns about the fairness of his trial. He always maintained that he had no recollection of the incident and pleaded not guilty. The Associated Press said Wednesday's prisoner swap was carried out in a European nation, with flight tracking services showing a Russian prison plane landing in Turkey's capital of Ankara earlier in the day. The decision was lamented by U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, who said at the time that Reed "remains in prison for a crime he didn't commit." And I was delighted to be able to share with them the good news about Trevor's freedom." Mr. Biden thanked Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens and U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, among others, for their "tireless and dedicated work" to secure Reed's release.

Washington — Rusia y Estados Unidos llevaron a cabo un intercambio de prisioneros el miércoles, que incluyó la liberación de un veterano de la Marina...

Posteriormente, Reed fue sentenciado a nueve años de prisión, aunque su familia ha mantenido su inocencia y el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha declarado que estaba injustamente detenido. Estados Unidos, en tanto, acordó devolver a Konstantin Yaroshenko, un piloto ruso que cumplía una sentencia de prisión federal de 20 años en Connecticut por conspiración para contrabandear cocaína a Estados Unidos después de que fue arrestado en Liberia en 2010 y extraditado a este país. Washington — Rusia y Estados Unidos llevaron a cabo un intercambio de prisioneros el miércoles, que incluyó la liberación de un veterano de la Marina estadounidense encarcelado en Moscú a cambio de un narcotraficante ruso convicto que cumplía una larga sentencia de prisión en Estados Unidos, dijo un alto funcionario estadounidense.

Rusia liberó a Trevor Reed, ciudadano estadounidense y exinfante de Marina que se encontraba detenido en ese país desde 2019.

Además, mencionó que Reed fue a un hospital de la prisión pero no recibió tratamiento, y luego fue enviado de regreso a confinamiento solitario. A Whelan lo arrestaron bajo cargos de espionaje, acuasaciones que él ha negado de manera constante y vehemente. Y estaremos los cuatro juntos de nuevo (por primera vez) en unos años, así que va a ser especial". Mientras tanto, la estrella del baloncesto estadounidense Brittney Griner sigue detenida en Rusia tras ser arrestada en febrero por acusaciones de tráfico de drogas. Su familia había expresado sus temores ante una probable exposición a la tuberculosis, así como por los efectos persistentes de haberse contagiado de covid-19. Y era un asunto especialmente urgente debido a las preocupaciones sobre su salud, añadieron. Finalmente, la liberación se aseguró a través de un intercambio de detenidos por el ciudadano ruso Konstantin Yaroshenko. Poco después de que Moscú anunciara la liberación de Reed, Biden, confirmó la noticia. "Y me complació poder compartir con ellos las buenas noticias sobre la libertad de Trevor", añadió. "Esta es una decisión difícil para un presidente. Reed y su familia siempre negaron los cargos en su contra. “Trevor rápidamente nos dijo que ellos... La liberación de Reed es el resultado de "meses y meses de trabajo arduo y cuidadoso en todo el gobierno de EE.UU." sobre el asunto, dijo un alto funcionario de la administración. Y señaló que "las conversaciones sobre este tema en especial se han acelerado recientemente para llevarnos a este punto".

Funcionarios estadounidenses y rusos confirmaron el miércoles que Trevor Reed está de regreso a Estados Unidos. La familia Reed dijo en un comunicado que ...

¿Está el enfoque fragmentado de la administración solo recogiendo los resultados más fáciles?". Mientras lo llevaban a la estación de policía, se enfrentó al agente que conducía, y le dio un codazo al otro funcionario que trató de intervenir. En un comunicado, la familia de Paul Whelan, un exinfante de marina estadounidense detenido por cargos de espionaje, dijo que estaba "lleno de felicidad para los Reed", pero que a Whelan se le estaba acabando el tiempo. Altos funcionarios estadounidenses dijeron que la liberación de Reed había sido "el resultado de meses y meses de trabajo arduo y cuidadoso" y que había una "preocupación creciente" por su salud mientras estuvo detenido. El gobierno de Estados Unidos expresó sus preocupaciones sobre la imparcialidad del juicio, y el embajador de Washington en Rusia, John Sullivan, dijo recientemente que Reed seguía "en prisión por un crimen que no cometió". Los padres dijeron que el infante de marina contaría su historia públicamente después de abordar "la miríada de problemas de salud" provocados por las condiciones a las que estuvo "sometido en su gulag ruso".

The former Marine was transferred to U.S. custody after being held in Russia since 2019. An expert explains the history behind that exchange.

The milestone of that history is Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot that got shot down on a surveillance flight over the Soviet Union in 1960, and the Soviets captured him. The five prisoners from Guantanamo were delivered to Qatar, who agreed to intern them for a period of time before releasing them. It was for humanitarian reasons; an awful lot of them were actually expected to die fairly soon after the swap, but [get to] die at home rather than die in a prison camp. And how do we need to change them?” And so in 1949, we get some provisions in terms of, particularly, the custody and care of prisoners. You couldn’t kill them out of hand, you had to keep them alive, and at the end of the conflict, you had to give them back to whatever nation they served. In the late 19th century, there’s a follow-on push to kind of regularize war during the American Civil War. A lot of people are pretty horrified by what they’re seeing, especially European observers. In 1949, after World War II, there’s going to be another revision of Geneva. So once again, they’re basically going to sit down and say, “All right, well, World War II was awful, what was wrong with the 1929 rules? So even in the colonial wars, there were swaps of prisoners of war that occurred during wartime and then at the end of war. SPRINGER: A prisoner exchange, from a military standpoint, is simply the return of personnel from two sides that are engaged in the conflict. He spent a bunch of time in his works essentially codifying what he saw as the laws of civilized war, and it included the idea that you couldn’t enslave enemy captives, that they were not the possession of whoever captured them. With that, Reed joins a long history of prisoner swaps in the American past. Reed had been sentenced to nine years in prison in 2020 after an altercation with Russian police officers, and American officials cited his deteriorating health as a reason for the swap.

El veterano de la Marina cumplía una condena de nueve años en Moscú; Estados Unidos entregó a un ciudadano ruso convicto por un delito de drogas.

El funcionario dijo que Yaroshenko había cumplido la mayor parte de su condena. Reed estuvo ubicado en el Campamento Pendleton de la base del Cuerpo de Marines en el condado de San Diego. Un alto funcionario estadounidense, que habló con The Associated Press bajo la condición de anonimato por no estar autorizado a hacerlo bajo su nombre, dijo que el caso Reed era de “prioridad” para el gobierno del presidente Joe Biden por razones de salud, entre otras.

Trevor Reed, a U.S. Marine veteran who has been held in Russian custody since 2019, was freed Wednesday in a prisoner swap between the Kremlin and the Biden ...

Biden met with Reed’s family in the White House in late March. One senior administration official informed CNN that the exchange was “accelerated” in part due to concerns about Reed’s physical well-being. Biden said the prisoner swap “required difficult decisions that I do not take lightly,” while acknowledging Roger Carstens, the White House’s hostage affairs envoy, and U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation John Sullivan’s “tireless and dedicated” diplomacy. (The Biden administration described Yaroshenko on Wednesday as “a Russian smuggler convicted of conspiring to import cocaine.”) Neither Russia nor the U.S. announced the location of the exchange, but a Russian Federal Security Service plane was observed flying to Ankara, Turkey, shortly before the meet was set to take place. In return, U.S. authorities agreed to release Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot who was arrested by in 2010 and remained in prison on drug-smuggling charges. And I was delighted to be able to share with them the good news about Trevor’s freedom.” Reed’s family told Vanity Fair in March that their son had been coughing blood after close contact with an individual with tuberculosis, and had possibly broken a rib. “Today, we welcome home Trevor Reed and celebrate his return to the family that missed him dearly,” Joe Biden said in the statement announcing that Reed is “free from Russian detention.” The president continued: “I heard in the voices of Trevor’s parents how much they’ve worried about his health and missed his presence.

Held in a Russian prison since 2019, Trevor Reed is safely on his way back to the US.

Is the administration's piecemeal approach picking low-hanging fruit?" They added that Mr Biden's phone call came while they were on the other line with their son. On a drunken night out, he was detained by two police officers after attending a party. Senior US officials said on Wednesday that Mr Reed's release was "the result of months and months of hard, careful work" and there had been "growing concern" over his health while in detention. The US government raised concerns about the fairness of his trial, with US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan recently saying that Mr Reed "remains in prison for a crime he didn't commit". President Joe Biden said he had been "delighted" to share the news of Mr Reed's return with his parents in a phone call.

ABC News' David Muir spoke exclusively with the parents of the former Marine hours after it was announced he would be released from a Russian prison camp. ABC ...

One year later, Reed was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony. Reed denied the allegations and maintained his innocence. I heard in the voices of Trevor’s parents how much they’ve worried about his health and missed his presence. And I was delighted to be able to share with them the good news about Trevor’s freedom." "Today, we welcome home Trevor Reed and celebrate his return to the family that missed him dearly," Biden said in a statement. Joey Reed told Muir during an interview on "World News Tonight" Wednesday.

Joey and Paula Reed spoke to their son on the phone after he was released in a prisoner swap Wednesday.

But we're going to still continue to advocate for them and try to bring them home." And he said that he would give us big hugs back," Paula Reed told O'Donnell. Reed has said he does not recall the incident and pleaded not guilty. Reed was "a little subdued" during the call, his father said. To us, he looked frail," Joey Reed said. Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed has been freed after Russia and the U.S. agreed to a prisoner swap.

Trevor Reed, the former Marine released in a prisoner exchange Wednesday after nearly three years in a Russian jail, has arrived back in the U.S..

Reed was arrested in the summer of 2019 by Russian authorities, accused of assaulting a police officer after a night of heavy drinking. “It’s been a day of joy for us, but not for #PaulWhelan and his family. I know this is a hard day for them," she tweeted. Now that Reed is back home, focusing on his health will be the priority. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2020, but he and his family have maintained his innocence throughout the ordeal. We truly mean that!”

Freed US Marine veteran Trevor Reed is now "back in the USA," his mom said early Thursday -- as a dramatic new video showed the Hollywood-like moment when ...

Newly-released footage showed the prisoner swap on the tarmac of a Turkey airport in a moment his dad, Jerry, had said was “like you see in the movies.” Reed had been behind bars since 2019, accused of assaulting two cops in Moscow while blackout drunk — getting sentenced to nine years after a trial that the US ripped as a “theater of the absurd.” Freed US Marine veteran Trevor Reed is now “back in the USA,” his mom said early Thursday — as a dramatic new video showed the Hollywood-like moment when he was swapped for a Russian drug trafficker in a prisoner exchange.

"It's been (a) very exciting day for The Reed family. Trevor is back in the USA," Reed's mother, Paula Reed, posted on Twitter early Thursday.

Jonathan Franks, a spokesman for Reed’s family, told NBC News on Thursday morning that Reed had landed in the U.S. but he declined to say where. "We are grateful beyond words," Paula Reed tweeted. U.S. officials were working on Reed’s release since at least last year. After exiting a car on a busy street while intoxicated, he was detained by police, who further alleged he grabbed the arm of an officer while heading to the police station, causing the vehicle to swerve into another lane. "Our lawyers had government experts analyze the video and put out a big long report saying that the car never slowed down and never stopped,” Reed’s father, Joey, told USA TODAY last year. Reed was arrested in Moscow while on a trip there in August 2019.

Trevor Reed, the Texas native and U.S. Marine veteran, is home Thursday after being detained in Russian since the summer of 2019.

Trevor Reed was swapped in Turkey on Wednesday for Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been serving a 20-year prison sentence in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy ...

“It’s been very exciting day for The Reed family. Trevor is back in the USA,” Paula Reed said on Twitter. Photographs tweeted from the account of Rep. August Pfluger, a Texas Republican, also showed him standing next to Reed. WASHINGTON (AP) — Trevor Reed is back in the United States one day after the Marine veteran was swapped for a Russian drug trafficker in a prisoner exchange between Washington and Moscow, his mother tweeted early Thursday morning.

A former U.S. Marine was on a trip in Moscow in 2019 when he was accused of attacking a Russian police officer and jailed.

Russian police allege that Reed grabbed the arm of an officer while in transit to the police station, causing the police vehicle to swerve into another lane. The Reed family had spent the last couple years organizing for his release. Reed was in Russia visiting with his girlfriend Lina Tsybulnik in 2019 when he was arrested. He was detained by police in Moscow after exiting a car on a busy street while intoxicated. Reed is a 30-year-old former U.S. Marine who was arrested in Moscow, Russia while on a trip in August 2019. Reed, who grew up in California, was a Texas resident at the time of his arrest , according to website set up by his family to call for his release.