American student Trevor Reed, sentenced in Russia to 9 years in prison for a fight with a police officer, was exchanged for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, convicted in the United States for drug trafficking, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported..

According to Yaroshenko's wife, the exchange took place in Turkey. Russian television showed how Reed was taken to Vnukovo airport and boarded the plane. Yaroshenko from Turkey has already arrived in Sochi.

The US also confirmed that American student Trevor Reed is returning home.. In particular, President Joe Biden said that negotiations for the exchange of Reed required "

Biden said that the US authorities will continue to seek the return to the country of Paul Whelan and other Americans convicted in the Russian Federation.

Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was arrested in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, in 2010 and then extradited to the United States, where Yaroshenko was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking..

Texas student Trevor Reed, who was in Russia on a tourist visa, was detained in August 2019 due to a loud quarrel with two girls on the Leningradskoe highway. According to the prosecution, the American resisted the arrest, and in the patrol car he attacked the driver, tearing his uniform, and hit his partner. In July 2020, he was sentenced to nine years in prison.. He served his term in Mordovia, complained about injuries received in the colony and symptoms of tuberculosis, went on a hunger strike because of the penalties he received.