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Trevor Reed, who was imprisoned for nearly three years, was released in 2022.
Trevor Reed, the former US Marine who was wrongly held in Russia before being released in a prisoner swap, has been injured in fighting in Ukraine, according to a Biden administration official.
Reed “was not involved in any activity on behalf of the U.S. government,” Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said at a news conference.
With the help of a nongovernmental organization, Reed “has been transported to Germany and is receiving medical care,” Patel said. His condition was not immediately clear.
Patel declined to say when or where Reed was injured in Ukraine.
Former US Marine Trevor Reed, who was convicted in Russia in 2019 and released in exchange for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, talks to ABC News, July 28, 2022.
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A spokesman for Reed’s family declined to comment.
Reed was arrested in 2019 while visiting his Russian girlfriend, a recent law graduate, in Moscow. He was unjustly imprisoned for almost three years.
In April 2022, he was released as part of a prisoner swap between the Biden administration and the Kremlin.
A poster photo of U.S. Marine veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed stands in Lafayette Park near the White House, March 30, 2022, in Washington. DC
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