Russia Releases U.S. Marine Vet as Part of Prisoner Exchange

Russia has exchanged jailed American Trevor Reed for a Russian pilot held in a U.S. prison in a rare example of cooperation between the two countries amid the confrontation over Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Reed, 30, a former U.S. Marine who was serving nine years after being convicted in 2020 of assaulting two police officers, was swapped for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a pilot jailed in 2011 for 20 years for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the U.S. after he was seized in a sting operation in Liberia.

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