WASHINGTON, Dec 12 talks about a judge convicted in Russia for espionage Paul Whelan, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said.
«We will have talks with the Russian Federation later this week about Whelan,» Sullivan told reporters.
According to him, the contacts will be held at a high level.
Whelan was detained in Moscow at the end of 2018 during, as the FSB reported, a spy operation. The defense claims that the American was the victim of a provocation: he was given a flash drive on which he allegedly expected to see a photo from a tourist trip to Sergiev Posad near Moscow. The defendant himself in the last word stated that he was not engaged in espionage. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison and sent to serve his sentence in a colony in Mordovia.