US Envoy Confronts Russian Diplomat on Evan Gershkovich Detention at UN

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, invited Elizabeth Whelan, the sister of detained American Paul Whelan, to attend a Security Council meeting presided over by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The U.S. diplomat said Moscow was using Messrs. Whelan and Gershkovich as “bargaining chips, human pawns.” Russia holds…Read More