Kremlin confirms intelligence operatives in historic Cold War-era prisoner swap

Multiple political prisoners and dissidents, including journalist Evan Gershkovich and Vladimir Kara-Murza, were detained on politically motivated charges before release.

In the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War, twenty-four people crossed borders in a carefully negotiated swap that reunited journalists, dissidents, and security consultants with their families in the West, while Moscow welcomed home intelligence operatives it had never before publicly claimed. The Kremlin's rare candor about who it was reclaiming — an FSB assassin, deep-cover spies, officers from Putin's most sensitive security services — revealed the depth of what Russia was willing to trade for, and what it believed its people were worth. That such an exchange could occur at all, a

Kremlin confirms intelligence operatives in historic Cold War-era prisoner swap

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