At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, President Biden vowed to continue to work to free Americans believed to be wrongly detained abroad, including Evan Gershkovich.
, including Gershkovich, whose family was in attendance.
He was the first U.S. correspondent to be arrested on spying accusations since the Cold War and the State Department has designated him as wrongly detained — an assessment his fellow reporter Matthew Luxmoore and his boss, Gordon Fairclough agreed with, when NBC News spoke with them on Friday.Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images
Luxmoore, who is based in Ukraine where he has been reporting on the war, added that Gershkovich was “very aware of the risks” of going to Russia. He added that he thought Gershkovich “felt a lot of responsibility given that because there were so few people there to kind of get the story out and to tell the tale of wartime Russia.”
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