By Doina Chiacu and Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON Former US Marine Trevor Reed returned to the United States on Thursday after being released by Russia on a prisoner swap, and a lawmaker who met with him said the “ghost” of March 30 yearold Texans be strong.
Reed was sacked Wednesday on a runway at an airport in Ankara, Turkey, in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. The exchange came despite strained relations between the United States and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
Texas Representative August Pfluger said Reed arrived at a San Antonio airport overnight.
The exchange is not part of broader diplomatic negotiations, according to US officials, and does not represent a change in the US approach to Ukraine.
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RussianUS relations are at their worst since the end of the Cold War amid the February 24 Russian invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow.
Reed was convicted in Russia in 2019 for endangering the lives of two police officers during a drunken fight during a visit to Moscow. The US called his trial “a theater of the absurd”.
Yaroshenko was arrested by US special forces in Liberia in 2010 and found guilty of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States. Russia proposed a prisoner swap for Yaroshenko with an American in July 2019.
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