The Pentagon has said that the U.S. Army serviceman who is one of two Americans arrested by Russia in separate cases disclosed on May 7 had violated army rules by traveling to the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, and he had gone there via China.
The detentions renewed questions over whether Russian authorities are targeting Americans for potential prisoner swaps amid sharp disagreements between Moscow and Washington over the war in Ukraine and other international security issues.
A Pervomaisky district court in Vladivostok ordered the arrest of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black and sent him to pretrial detention until at least July 2, according to a court spokeswoman.
Daniel Kanigan, deputy spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, told RFE/RL in an e-mail …
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