‘I’ll Get Him Released’: Trump Says US Reporter Jailed in Russia Will Be Freed

Former President Donald Trump said he would secure the release of a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for over a year on spying charges, accusations that the U.S. government has dismissed. Evan Gershkovich, 32, was arrested on March 29 last year on espionage charges by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). He was detained in Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, approximately 900 miles east of Moscow, on an official trip allegedly reporting on the Wagner mercenary group. At the time of arrest, FSB said “it was established that Evan Gershkovich, acting at the request of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex.”...