Evan Gershkovich, a 32-year-old American journalist, is set to be part of a prisoner swap after being arrested on espionage charges in Russia, marking the first such incident involving a US journalist since the Cold War.
Gershkovich was detained in March 2023 while reporting for the Wall Street Journal during a visit to Yekaterinburg. Russian authorities accused him of spying for the CIA, although no public evidence has been presented to support these allegations.
