White House Seeks Ways to Free Journalist Gershkovich

Washington, 30 April 2023, 07:02 — REGNUM Washington authorities are trying to release an American journalist from the Wall Street Journal who was arrested in Russia for espionage Evan Gershkovich. This was announced on April 29 by the President of the United States Joe Biden at the annual reception of the Association of Correspondents at the White House.

“We are looking for opportunities and tools to bring him back home. I won’t stop fighting until we bring him home.” – said the head of the White House.

As reported IA REGNUM, Biden held an informal meeting with the family of Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested for espionage in Russia. He was detained by the FSB in Yekaterinburg on March 30. The journalist is suspected of trying to obtain, on the instructions of the US intelligence services, information about the work of Russian military-industrial complex enterprises. He was taken red-handed.