(2 Aug 2024)
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Lackland Air Force Base, Texas – 2 August 2024
1. Various of freed prisoners Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva standing with family members for big group photo
STORYLINE:
Three newly freed Americans are back on U.S. soil after a landmark prisoner exchange with Russia.
Journalist Evan Gershkovich, corporate security executive Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist with dual U.S.-Russia citizenship, were flown from Maryland to Texas early Friday.
They arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland shortly before midnight Thursday for a joyful reunion with their families.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were also there to greet them.
The three Americans were part of the biggest U.S.-Russian prisoner swap in post-Soviet history.
Officials say the multinational deal officials has set two dozen people free.
The trade follows years of back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Russia invaded Ukraine.
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