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10:38am: Brittney Griner urges Biden to bring home reporter Gershkovich, accused of spying in Russia
US basketball star Brittney Griner, who was freed from a Russian penal colony in a prisoner exchange last year, has urged the Biden administration to keep using “every tool possible” to win the release of a US reporter accused of spying in Russia.
Griner and her wife Cherelle said on Instagram that “our hearts are filled with great concern” for Evan Gershkovich, the journalist arrested by Russia’s FSB security service last week in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg.
The Kremlin says Gershkovich was using journalism as a cover for spying activity – something his newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, has vehemently denied.
Russia has not made public any evidence to support the charges, under which Gershkovich faces up to 20 years in jail. The White House has described the accusations as “ridiculous” and President Joe Biden has called on Moscow to release him.
10:38am: Ukraine will fight on, army chief vows year after bodies found in Bucha
Ukraine will continue to fight for its independence, the chief of the army said on Sunday, a year after bodies of civilians were found in Bucha after Russian troops retreated.
“We will continue to fight for the independence of our nation,” Valery Zaluzhny wrote on Telegram. His comments came exactly a year after AFP journalists who entered the town of Bucha after the Russian retreat saw bodies of people in civilian clothes lying on the street, including…
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