Gershkovich is being held on spying charges the U.S. denounced as false.
was arrested in Russia. The first American reporter to be imprisoned by Moscow since the Cold War, he remains trapped in jail while the United States struggles to find a deal with Russia to free him.
Mikhail Gershkovich and Ella Milman, parents of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich as well as Emma Tucker, Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal speak with George Stephanopoulos during an interview with ABC News."I think if you let the pessimism in ... the game is over," Ella Millman, Gershkovich's mother, told George Stephanopoulos in the interview. "And our saying in the family is we're moving forward. Moving forward.
Gershkovich is one of several Americans seized by Russia in recent years -- among them the WNBA star Brittney Griner -- as part of an apparently intensifying campaign of hostage-taking. A former Marine, Paul Whelan, has been imprisoned since 2018 on espionage charges the U.S. and his family say are fabricated. Another U.S.
The U.S. and the Kremlin have both indicated that talks about a deal are ongoing. Those close to the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who died in prison last month, have claimed there were discussions for a possible trade that would have freed Navalny, as well as Gershkovich and Whelan, in exchange for the Russian assassin, Krasikov.
Tucker, the Wall Street Journal's editor-in-chief, this week expressed confidence that a deal can still be reached.
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