{"id":135922,"date":"2023-01-13T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135922"},"modified":"2023-01-13T12:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:22:27","slug":"russia-releases-u-s-navy-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135922","title":{"rendered":"Russia releases U.S. Navy veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taylor Dudley, 35, a Navy veteran, was backpacking in Poland. During his adventure, he crossed over from Poland into Kaliningrad, a Russian province between Poland and Lithuania. The Russians subsequently detained Dudley. This event occurred in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

From Reuters:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday released a U.S. citizen who had crossed into its Kaliningrad exclave in the first weeks of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who met the man at the border in Poland, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

U.S. Navy veteran Taylor Dudley, 35, was backpacking in Europe when he crossed the Polish-Russian border in April, Jonathan Franks, a lawyer who represents families of Americans detained overseas, said in an email to reporters.<\/p>\n

Dudley’s circumstances while in Russia were unclear and his case had not been previously publicized.<\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department was aware of reports that an American citizen had been deported from Russia, said a spokesperson who declined to comment further on the case, citing privacy considerations.<\/p>\n

Russia’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the Polish foreign ministry declined to comment on the case.<\/p>\n

Dudley’s release at the Bagrationovsk-Bezledy border crossing comes as relations between Moscow and Washington remain fractured after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began Feb. 24, 2022.<\/p>\n

WNBA star Brittney Griner was released by Russia last month in a swap for Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout after talks between U.S. and Russian officials, but former Marine Paul Whelan remains in a Russian prison camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reuters has additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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