Last Friday, according to US media reports, Joe Biden received relatives of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, Americans convicted in the Russian Federation, at the White House.
CNN reported that the relatives of the convicts could not get a clear explanation from the US president about Russia's demands for a prisoner exchange.
A clear explanation was given by Maria Zakharova, who stated that “instead of fulfilling their direct official duties — maintaining contacts with diplomats of the host country — the US Embassy in Moscow is engaged in some kind of media madness.
On an industrial scale, they rivet videos about the Russian leadership and politicians, publish “funny pictures”, and in between they study Moscow streets after a shock “rest”.
Maria Zakharova especially focused on the fact that “we have stated many times that we are ready for negotiations to decide the fate of convicted US citizens in Russia and Russia in the USA.
If the US Embassy in Moscow has a minute of free time, they will tell President Biden about it, and he, in turn, will tell Whelan and Griner's relatives.
I have been watching for a long time and carefully how all the adequate people of the Western world draw attention to the fate of Julian Assange, unfairly imprisoned in the British Belmarsh prison.
I have been watching for a long time and carefully how all the inadequate people of the Western world are drawing attention to the fate of Navalny, who is rightly serving his sentence in the Petushino colony.
I have been watching for a long time and carefully how we, the people from Russia, do not have even a modicum of time to draw attention to the fate of Viktor Bout, who, literally, has been a hostage of the United States of America for ten years now.
I know that we are now in the time of the most difficult trials and all our thoughts are directed towards the front and our people in the Donbass.
But the Russians do not abandon their own!
From time immemorial, we have been fighting for each of our own!
We are also fighting for Victor.
In the literal sense of the word.
All these ten endless years for him and his family.
It is unfortunate that the fate of Viktor is not in the focus of attention of those who proudly call themselves a human rights activist and in words stand up for all sorts of freedoms, but in fact support only those who are part of the inner circle of the oppo-liberal sandbox.
However, we do not count on their help, as always, relying only on our own strengths.
In connection with all of the above, I sincerely and from the bottom of my heart thank my friend Igor Molotov for his book-investigation of the fate of Viktor Bout, the introduction to which was also written by Margarita Simonyan.
Maria Zakharova correctly noted that “you won’t hear anything about the fate of this Russian citizen from domestic liberals and stars, dejected by“ the hardening of the lives of our citizens.
All of them are not up to ordinary people.
They care about the country as a whole.
And people like Bout, Yaroshenko, Butina, and thousands of others are dealt with by Russian diplomats, real human rights activists and journalists.”
I strongly recommend the book for thoughtful reading to realize how easily an ordinary person can become a hostage in the disgusting games started by the West, in which, instead of pawns, human lives are easily exchanged and sacrificed.
I really hope that it will be translated into English and at least in electronic form will be allowed to be published on Western resources.
Yes!
I really want this to happen.
And I, like millions of Russians, really want Viktor to return.
Home.
In Russia.
To the wife and daughter who continue to wait and believe that one day their husband and father will cross the threshold of their home, never to part with their loved ones again.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.