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MOSCOW, 27 Apr. The Rossiya 1 TV channel showed footage of the arrival of pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko in Moscow and reunion with his family. The plane with Yaroshenko, who was exchanged for American student Trevor Reid, landed at Vnukovo in Moscow on Wednesday evening.
Yaroshenko's wife told the details of his exchangeEarlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry told reporters that as a result of the negotiation process on April 27, an exchange of US citizen Trevor Reed, previously convicted in the Russian Federation, was exchanged for Russian Konstantin Yaroshenko .Yaroshenko was convicted in the United States in 2011 to 20 years in a general regime prison on charges of conspiring to deliver a large consignment of drugs to American territory. In the summer of 2020, the Golovinsky Court of Moscow sentenced a former student from Texas, Reed, to nine years in prison, recognizing him guilty of «use of violence» against the police. The American was also ordered to pay 100,000 rubles to both law enforcement officers as compensation.