Joey and Paula Reed, parents of US Marine Trevor Reed, thanked President Joe Biden and others, saying the 'president's action may have saved Trevor's life.'
WASHINGTON, DC, USA – The United States and Russia swapped prisoners on Wednesday, April 27, amid their most tense relations in decades over the war in Ukraine, with former US Marine Trevor Reed released in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko.
“The negotiations that allowed us to bring Trevor home required difficult decisions that I do not take lightly,” Biden added. The swap occurred in Turkey, and the United States thanked Turkey, a NATO ally, for its help in the exchange. Russian news agencies reported that Yaroshenko then flew from Ankara to Sochi and finally to Moscow. Rossiya 1, Russia’s main national news channel, showed video of Yaroshenko’s being embraced by his wife and his daughter, who was jumping up and down with joy, on the tarmac at a Moscow airport.
“The American plane pulled up next to the Russian plane, and they walked both prisoners like you see in the movies,” Joey Reed told CNN.
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