(Reuters) – Here is international reaction to Thursday’s East-West prisoner exchange:
WALL STREET JOURNAL
Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker, whose correspondent Evan Gershkovich was included in the exchange, said the swap “done in a trade for Russian operatives guilty of serious crimes was predictable as the only solution given President (Vladimir) Putin’s cynicism”.
GERMANY
Germany, confirming the release of Vadim Krasikov, a Russian convicted of the murder in 2019 of a former Chechen militant in Berlin, said it was “not an easy decision”.
“Our obligation to protect German nationals and our solidarity with the USA were important motivations,” the government said in a statement.
RUSSIA
The Kremlin, speaking on the day of the exchange, said it hoped those who had left Russia, whom it described as “enemies”, would stay away, according to the state-run TASS news agency.
(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle, Sarah Marsh, Andrew Osborn, Maxim Rodionov; Writing by Giles Elgood; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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