INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia exchanged jailed ex-United States Marine Trevor Reed for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was in an American prison on drug
flying back to Moscow via Turkey, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.Reed, 30, was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2020 on
United States, where he was convicted the following year of smuggling cocaine in his planes to destinations in South America, Africa and
recent months, and United States Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan said this month that he was hospitalized with tuberculosis-like
symptoms."Our family has been living a nightmare
Today, our prayers have been answered and Trevor is safely on his way back to the United States," Reed's family said in a statement
States President Joe Biden said negotiations to secure Reed's release required "difficult decisions.""The negotiations that allowed us to
bring Trevor home required difficult decisions that I do not take lightly," Biden said in a statement
"His safe return is a testament to the priority my Administration places on bringing home Americans held hostage and wrongfully detained
