Inside The Trevor Reed Deal Travel From The Oval Office To Moscow
With US-Russia relations at an all-time low, it seemed unlikely that we could hope for the release of Reed, a former Marine who had been held in Russia for almost three years. This week, however, the Biden government completed the kind of deal it had previously resisted by trading Reed with Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot and convicted drug dealer serving a 20-year Connecticut prison sentence. A series of events and reflections over the past two months have helped facilitate the exchange, including the escalation of Reed’s health concerns, a private meeting at the Oval Office between his parents and President Joe Biden and a secret trip to Moscow by a former diplomat on the brink of war in Russia....