WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, ex-Marine Whelan released in U.S., Russia prisoner swap

reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released Thursday by Russia as part of a major, multinational swap of two dozen prisoners.

The Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva and British-Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza also were freed as part of the swap.

“All four have been imprisoned unjustly in Russia,” President Joe Biden said in a televised address from the White House, where he was…