Evan Gershkovich’s mother, Ella, arrived for an urgent 10:30 a.m. meeting at the White House with President Biden on Thursday, the 491st day of her son’s detention. She had been told to bring her husband Mikhail and her daughter Danielle in a three-minute call that ended with a strict instruction: Tell no one.
Five thousand miles away, Evan Gershkovich was in his final hours in Russia’s custody, aboard a Tupolev-204 government jet bound for a Turkish airport where orange-vested security personnel were waiting nervously. The Wall Street Journal reporter, 32 years old, had been documenting Russia’s descent into repression when agents grabbed him from a steakhouse and turned him into the story he’d been trying to cover. Now he was set to be a central component in one of the most complicated prisoner swaps in history.
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