'JUST ABSURD': Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief speaks out on foxandfriends after journalist detained in Russia. Watch the full interview.
on Monday."He's done stellar work. He's one of the few reporters who have gone back to Russia since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and has been doing incredible work since then under increasingly difficult conditions, and for the Russian foreign ministry and the Russian government, to accuse him of espionage is just absurd."
The espionage allegations have been largely dismissed as bogus, at a time when bilateral tensions between Washington and Moscow sit at an all-time high. "I can't say that I know exactly what Evan was working on at the moment that he was detained, but I think whatever that was, was beside the point," Schwirtz said."Russia has a history of detaining people, detaining Americans, for use in its own sort of geopolitical policy to use as bargaining chips with the West and with the United States."
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