Konstantin Yaroshenko during the exchangeMOSCOW, April 27 Pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was exchanged for American student Trevor Reed , said that his health was «not very good», he was tortured in the USA. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry told reporters that as a result of the negotiation process on April 27, Trevor Reed, a US citizen previously convicted in the Russian Federation, was exchanged for Russian Konstantin Yaroshenko.
&# 34; Only now, when I saw my wife and daughter, only now I realized that, finally, I returned home & # 34;, — said Yaroshenko on the TV channel & # 34; Russia 1 & # 34; after arriving in Moscow and meeting with his wife and daughter.
Speaking about health, Yaroshenko noted that it, «of course, is not very good.» «What did the US authorities do to me during these 12 years from the moment of abduction, from the moment of torture, and the attitude towards me in American prisons was not the best,» he added.
Viktor Bout's wife hopes for the Foreign Ministry to continue working to release her husband .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 each to both law enforcement officers as compensation.