Media reports on alleged talks about exchanging US espionage convict Paul Whelan and other US citizens for Russians imprisoned in the United States are not true, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th August, 2020) Media reports on alleged talks about exchanging US espionage convict Paul Whelan and other US citizens for Russians imprisoned in the United States are not true, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
"The media regularly publish reports on the preparation of the exchange of US citizens, including Paul Whelan, recently convicted in Russia, for Russian citizens held in US prisons. As previously noted by representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, all reports on the negotiations on this matter do not correspond to reality," Zakharova told reporters.
A citizen of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland, Paul Whelan was arrested in Moscow on charges of espionage in December 2018.
