US President Joe Biden. File photo WASHINGTON, April 28 US President Joe Biden said that the exchange of American convicted in the Russian Federation, Trevor Reed, began to negotiate three months ago. «I raised the issue three months ago,» the press pool quotes Biden White House. According to the report, journalists turned to Biden with a request to explain how they managed to achieve the release of Reed. «I did it,» Biden said. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry told reporters that Reed's exchange for pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was serving a prison sentence in the United States, took place as a result of a negotiation process. him guilty of using violence against police officers. Yaroshenko was sentenced in the United States in 2011 to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiring to deliver a large consignment of drugs to the United States. 
Yaroshenko stated that he was tortured in American prisons
