Biden says he’s working to secure release of Wall Street Journal reporter held for a year in Russia
By COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden says the U.S. is working every day to secure the release of a Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia. The Democratic president said on the one-year anniversary of Evan Gershkovich’s detention that he “went to Russia to do his job as a reporter — risking his safety to shine the light of truth on Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine.” Biden later told reporters that he admires “the hell” out of Gershkovich. Russia alleges Gershkovich was acting on U.S. orders to collect state secrets. Gershkovich, the Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny the allegations.
