NBC News
Four U.S. residents wrongly imprisoned in Russia — including journalist Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whelan — were released and on their way home Thursday, part of a major multinational prisoner exchange the likes of which has not been seen since the Cold War.
The massive deal, cut among seven nations, involves 24 people, including five Germans and seven Russian citizens held in Russia, and eight Russians imprisoned in the U.S., Germany, Slovenia, Norway and Poland.
President Joe Biden called the deal that had led to the release of the four U.S. detainees a “feat of diplomacy and friendship.”
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