The Russian President will meet Joe Biden at a crunch summit in Geneva, Switzerland. The Ukraine, as well as jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, will be on the agenda.
Asked whether he would release the two prisoners ahead of the summit as a gesture of good will, Putin said:"I know we have certain U.S. citizens who are in prison, who are convicted, but if one considers the number of Russian federation citizens that are in U.S. prisons then these numbers don't even compare."
Putin added that Reed was a"troublemaker" and"drunk" who"got himself s***-faced and started a fight." Reed is serving a nine-year sentence for hitting a Russian police officer in 2019, a charge the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan has described as"flimsy." Reed and his family deny the charges.show on Monday, Reed's father Joey said they were fine with a prisoner swap if it meant his son could return home.
In February, Moscow and Washington were in talks to secure the release of Whelan, who was jailed for spying last June, but there was no breakthrough. Whelan faces 16 years in jail. Whelan denies the charges and said he was set up in a sting operation. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the monument to Alexander III, on June 5, 2021 in Gatchina, 45 kilometers south of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Emperor Alexander III of Russia died in 1894. Putin has admitted that he is concerned that the United States could attack his country.
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