US secretary of state Antony Blinken demanded the immediate release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a phone call with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday.
“Secretary Blinken conveyed the United States’ grave concern over Russia’s unacceptable detention of a US citizen journalist. The secretary called for his immediate release,” State department spokesman Vedant Patel said.
Blinken also pressed for the release of Paul Whelan, a former US Marine and a corporate security executive who was convicted in 2020 on espionage charges that he has denied.
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