In a call with his counterpart in Moscow, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich, an American Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained in Russia on espionage charges last week. NBC News’ Josh Lederman explains what both sides are saying about Gershkovich’s arrest and what the charges could mean if he is convicted by a Russian court.
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Blinken calls on Russia to release detained Wall Street Journal reporter
#EvanGershkovich #Russia #WallStreetJournal
Republican Party is greatest threat to humanity. ✌🏼🧢
Blinken is a Democrat. You are new at snark, right?
@Imperial Motoring Biden and every president has to cater to the military/industrial complex.
@Imperial Motoring Doesn’t change the validity of his statement.
@GreaseMaster2000 It may not change his invalid dopey statement, but It makes you look foolish agreeing with that little princess.
US can reduce diplomatic relationships with Russia expel diplomats or close Russia diplomatic offices
Stop letting any russian in the country for whatever reason. They could be spies too, works both ways…
Russia does not make contact and refuses to return the journalist to his homeland, we should isolate Russia to avoid such cases and to reduce the risks of escalation of the conflict by Putin, Russia has no place among diplomatic countries
How can you negotiate with people who brazenly lie to your face all the time?
@Kenyatta Anderson I absolutely agree with you. Russian liars should be completely isolated
@Fonton Sodikou China uses paper tigers North Korea against US Japan South Korea and Pakistan against India
Blinken knows other nations laugh at him, right?
Hello 👋🤗
Russia should make an example of this fool
if its not a missle.. the russian’s are literally making us look like weak fools.. and the admin that allows that…. is gonna be fired in a year or so… take all the other nonsense out of it.. if you can’t be tough on russia… especially right now…. left or right….. we dont need you. Tired of a govt so weak that it can only enforce laws on the poor.. won’t stand up to an ENEMY.. and wants to play with our healthcare… so i hope we get some POTUS option that isn’t dem or republican… a centrist would know where we were right now… a moderate would be tired of this crap.. be tough on russia.. give equal justice.. or we will find some politicians that will… its a fact.. the interests and Russia don’t have the power here… we do.
Free Julian Assange! The barbaric regime of Saudi Arabia butchered a journalist into pieces & the apartheid regime of Israel intentionally murdered a US journalist! US stayed silent because they are the so called “allies”! Your hypocrisy is shameful!
😂😂😂 oh no.
Regardless of whether you provide assistance to civilians or not, the odds of making it back are not in your favor. Even within Russian borders, there is no assurance that law enforcement won’t arrest you.
@Daniel Dach what are you talking about? It doesn’t make any sense to me, nor in regards to the meaning of my post. What civillians and what assistance? It sounds like you’ve been reading tabloids. I’m not trying to be rude or sarcastic, I’m genuinely aaking. That kind of thing has been known to happen a lot here and it usually means I have to strangle north korea.
The US should detain all russian athletes, like the ones in the US right now playing tennis, on grounds that they are spying !! Cause, y’know tit for tat!
Cry more Merica
He’s no different than those Einsteins who go hiking in bear country. Oh well
such a country under Putin’s regime should not exist at all, because until Putin is defeated the whole of Europe is at risk of Russian aggression, and only Ukraine now holds this evil
Only then can we restore law and order. Unfortunately, the present situation has led to those with guns making the laws. Negotiating with terrorists is ineffective, and the hostages can only be rescued with military assistance.
This is great news! I love when bad things happen to journalists! These losers are guilty of propaganda and misinformation that has lead to many deaths.
Keep him.
For real, that’s like 1 shade away from ‘Kremlin decides to -liberate- detain Fox News reporter…because he’s just their kind of guy, and is being -offered- ordered to sign a 4 year employment contract.’
diplomatic negotiations with the Kremlin are impossible, we just need to stop Putin, we can do it by helping the Ukrainians in the war with this regime
Russia is trying in every way to confirm its status as a terrorist country. To detain an innocent journalist. At the same time, Russian journalists hanging on TV are real propagandists
The refusal of Russia is yet another example of the Kremlin’s use of terrorist tactics, which not only impact the military but also harm innocent civilians. Such actions must be halted. We must continue to assist the Ukrainians in their fight for complete liberation from Russian domination.
Nobody cares. The turd shouldn’t have been in a country we’re waging a proxy war against.
“Journalism is not a crime,” said -John Kirby.-
#FreeAssange
Russia commits crimes not only against journalists but against all mankind, killing civilians and children in the conflict against Ukraine, the task of all civilized countries is to fight this aggression
@Kenyatta Anderson Russia tortures civilians in Ukraine because they couldn’t reach any goals on the battlefields
On accusations of espionage, Evan Gershkovich has been taken into custody in Russia. Evan, a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, is the first American journalist to be detained in Russia since 1968 on such allegations.
Lol Russia now afraid and will release him
Tomorrow 😛😛 those days are long gone
as far as I know Russia violates all norms towards foreign citizens, now Russia commits crimes against international employees, we must put an end to the Kremlin’s mayhem
@Kenyatta Anderson Russia has never follow the international rules. They don’t use laws at all
Just release another gun smuggler to Russia
Russia peed their pants. I am sure the “journalist” on the plane flying back home
I hope that he will return home because it has to be so
Our government has to do everything possible to get our citizen from Russian prison. They haven’t got an rules to keep him there
In Russia they imprison absolutely everyone who is unwanted, and they do the same in the occupied territories. It’s just awful
@Britt Crona we have to stop Russian terror because people have to live in the peaceful world
Russia is simply terrorists who have invaded someone else’s territory and committed genocide against the Ukrainian people!
@Britt Crona Right now, there is no time to drag out this war any longer, because Ukrainians have been suffering for almost a year!
Russia is a lying country where people have no rights. They don’t care about laws and Putin thinks he can do whatever he wants. Now all efforts must be made for Russia to be defeated on the battlefield
Yes you are right. Russian people actually don’t know the truth of the reality being because Russian government keeps them in the total propaganda
And it seems like they’ve started to do this not only to their own citizens but also to foreigners like this jonralist. The only realistic way to help russian people out is to help Ukraine in ending Putin’s genocidal regime.
Russians keep lying
I’m afraid that negotiations with Russia are useless. We need to bring down Putin’s regime, we need to support Ukraine. Russia is not a civilized country and everything must be done so that they do not pose a threat to anyone
We can’t talk about any negotiations unless Russian army leaves the whole Ukrainian territory
@Melida Reichert Absolutely. Not only this, russians have been lying basically every day since this invasion has began last year. So how can we or Ukraine even trust these people? I don’t think we should, until there is at least one soldier on Ukrainian soil.
@Melida Reichert I think the only suitable negotiation would be the negotiation of the surrender of Russia
It makes no more sense to negotiate with Putin, he has already done too much terrible
I don’t think anyone believes that this journalist was really a spy. Russians are acting erratic and it seems like they don’t care anymore about anything but their delusional goals. We’ve got to bring them down to earth, maybe providing more military aid for Ukrainian army will do the job.
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has made life in these areas equally perilous as in Somalia, with the daily violence and absence of lawful governance making the chances of being killed or captured for ransom a constant threat.
Russia has lost the potential to confront Ukraine at the front, so now it has to recruit as many people as possible into its shameful army.
Once again, Russia has suffered huge losses, and it looks like nothing will save them… Putin needs to surrender and go to jail as soon as possible!
When will Russia be completely isolated from the civilized world? It is impossible to look at their stupid laws and rules
Russia continues to destroy the civilian population of Ukraine, the world must respond to this as soon as possible, because there is no other choice!
Russia by such actions only confirms that it is a terrorist country
I wonder how this problem will be solved. I’m surprised to see this kind of thing at all, Russia is weirding out something incomprehensible.
Now is the time for the whole world to step up its support for Ukraine to stop this horror from happening on their territory.
More and more weapons for Ukraine and right now, because there will be no other time and there is nowhere else to go, so only increased military assistance
Russia again does what it wants and then lies
Putin does not care about rules and laws
Putin thinks he can do whatever he wants
Putin will no longer be able to hide the real losses of the Russian army, because it’s all been out in the open for a long time!
More weapons for Ukraine – faster victory for the whole world!!!
Only modern weapons will help Ukraine bring peace to the country and the world, and destroy a huge enemy!
With each of our help, Ukraine is getting closer to victory and freedom
Thanks to the latest weapons, Ukraine is breaking many of Russia’s arms supply chains, so only more and more aid to Russia in the near future.
Only with our help this war will end faster