American citizen Suedi Murekezi has been freed after Ukraine and Russia conducted a prisoner exchange, head of the President’s Office of Ukraine says.
was reportedly freed after Ukraine and Russia conducted another prisoner exchange, said Andriy Yermak, the head of the President’s Office of Ukraine on Wednesday.Among those freed were 64 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he said, before noting that Murekezi was also freed. The bodies of four fallen soldiers were also released by Russia.
The U.S. Department of State confirmed that an American citizen was freed but declined to release further details"due to privacy considerations." The person has since"departed Russian-controlled territory," the agency said. Murekezi was reportedly arrested in June in the city of Kherson, which was occupied by Russian forces at the time, the. He then was held by pro-Russian separatist forces in the city of Donetsk in the self-proclaimed “People’s Republic of Donetsk,” the newspaper reported.
A Russian news agency said that Murekezi was detained on charges of"inciting ethnic hatred" for protesting against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. His lawyer said he had become involved in those protests"by chance."Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.
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