![Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg on June 26, 2024.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/HRINH75I2BBUZOJIUODFQXV46A.jpg?auth=310407c7fce750fbacab37f2839b4288d19b3f21c1bd04be31091852a10d5a99&width=414&height=233&focal=3910%2C847)
Russia frees reporter Evan Gershkovich and others in biggest prisoner swap with the West in decades
Turkey claims to have coordinated the exchange of 24 people from the US, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus. Turkish intelligence sources told EL PAÍS that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entrusted his secret service chief to personally handle the case