Evan Gershkovich says he was 'lured into a trap' before Russian arrest
US journalist Evan Gershkovich has described the moment he was detained by masked men in Russia in 2023, saying he believed he had been lured into a trap. In his first interview in the UK, he said the arrest in Yekaterinburg began when a group of about half a dozen masked men entered a restaurant and told him, "I think we booked that table." He said the encounter quickly turned into an arrest by the FSB, Russia's domestic security service. Gershkovich said he was in Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km east of Moscow, meeting someone he thought was a source for a... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 29 Sep 2026 14:00 LONDON
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