The Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that Yaroshenko was discriminated against in the dungeons of American prisons

RT previously published a video of the exchange of Russian Yaroshenko for American Reid.

The Foreign Ministry said that Yaroshenko was "a victim of a provocation by the US intelligence services, on the tip of which he was arrested in Liberia and tortured."

After that, the Russian was “taken out for trial in New York” with a pre-decided sentence on charges of intending to smuggle drugs.

At the same time, steps were constantly taken through the Russian Foreign Ministry to release him, the ministry stressed.

At the same time, all these “nightmarish years for Konstantin Yaroshenko in dungeons” a Russian citizen was subjected to discrimination and degrading treatment, they noted there.

This included denials of adequate medical care.

“As a result, Washington managed to put the squeeze on, using the US interest in exchanging American Trevor Reed, convicted in Russia for drunken debauchery and resisting the police,” the ministry said.

The Foreign Ministry intends to continue to make efforts to "liberate all Russians who have fallen into the millstones of punitive American justice."

On April 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that as a result of a long negotiation process between Moscow and Washington, Trevor Reed, who was convicted in Russia for assaulting a policeman, was exchanged for Konstantin Yaroshenko.