Washington D.C. – Washington Examiner, May 27, 2025
President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to a prisoner exchange, Russia’s foreign minister said.
“President Trump is a man who wants results,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Turkey, according to NBC News. He did not provide further details about the exchange.
The State Department did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request to verify Russia’s claim.
The exchange would be the first prisoner swap between the United States and Russia since American teacher Marc Fogel was returned to the U.S. in February after he spent more than three years in prison.
Russia’s announcement comes nearly a year after four Americans, including journalist Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan, who had been wrongly imprisoned in Russia, were released in August as part of a multicountry exchange. An exchange of that degree had not been seen since the Cold War.
