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Marine veteran Trevor Reed, who was wrongly held in Russia for three years before being released last year as part of a prisoner exchange, has been injured in fighting in Ukraine, the State Department confirmed on Tuesday.
“We are aware that Trevor Reed was injured fighting in Ukraine,” deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said at a news conference. Reed has been transported to Germany and is receiving medical attention.”
Patel did not say how Reed was injured or state his condition. Reed was transferred to Germany by an NGO (non-governmental organization), but did not name the organization.
But he stressed that while in Ukraine, Reed was “not involved in any activity on behalf of the US government”.
Reed wash arrested in the summer of 2019 in Moscow after Russian authorities said he assaulted an officer as he was being driven to a police station after a night of heavy drinking.
Despite the objections of his family and the US government that he had been wrongfully detained, Reed was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Reed was released in April 2022 in exchange for Russian drug trafficker Konstantin Yaroshenko.
It wasn’t immediately clear when Reed traveled to Ukraine and how he ended up there to fight.
“Since the beginning of this war, we have warned that U.S. citizens traveling to Ukraine, especially to participate in fighting there, face significant risks, including the risk of capture or death or even bodily harm,” Patel said.
Marine veteran Trevor Reed, released by Russia in prisoner exchange, wounded in fighting in Ukraine
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