The US envoy to the United Nations has known as on Russia to launch Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US marine Paul Whelan.
“Last year, this council had the privilege of being joined by Paul’s sister Elizabeth in the public gallery,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield advised a UN Security Council assembly in New York.
She requested Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to contemplate her “unimaginable pain having gone four years without seeing her brother, to look into her eyes and see her suffering.”
Underlining that greater than 2,000 days have handed since Whelan final noticed his household, Greenfield mentioned: “We will not rest until Paul and Evan come home, and Russia has ceased this barbaric practice of holding human pawns once and for all. And that is a promise.”
Gershkovich was detained in March 2023 on costs of espionage. Russia’s Federal Security Service has accused the reporter of acquiring state secrets and techniques concerning the military-industrial advanced, which Gershkovich and the WSJ have denied, sustaining he was merely doing his job.
Whelan has been detained in Russia on espionage costs for greater than 5 years.
Source: www.anews.com.tr