The United States demanded the immediate release of the American journalist arrested on charges of espionage from Russia.
According to foreign media reports, US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken has made an unusual phone call to his Russian counterpart since the start of the war in Ukraine, urging Moscow to immediately release a Wall Street Journal reporter who He was detained last week.
In a phone call with Sergei Lavrov, Blanken expressed “deep concern” over the Kremlin’s detention of journalist Ivan Grishkovich on espionage charges and called for the immediate release of Paul Whelan, according to the State Department.
The US Secretary of State said that the journalist Evan Gurshkovich has been wrongfully detained.
According to media reports, on a phone call, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it is acceptable to create a stir by giving the American journalist’s case a political color, and the court will decide the fate of the American journalist.
