Exchanged for Yaroshenko, American Reid blew himself up on a mine in a special operation zone

US citizen Trevor Reed, who returned to his homeland last year as a result of a prisoner exchange with Russia, was wounded in Ukraine and was hospitalized, informs CNN. Information about Reed’s injury was confirmed by a State Department spokesman.

Late April 2022 Russia exchanged convicted of using violence against a government official, American Reed, against Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the United States. After returning to his homeland, Reed decided to go to Ukraine, where he participated in the fighting on the Ukrainian side.

According to The Messenger, which refers According to sources at the Pentagon, Reed hit an infantry mine about two weeks ago and was hospitalized in a hospital in Kyiv. At the same time, he asked to be transferred for treatment to an American institution in Germany or Poland.

The severity of Reed’s injury was not reported, The Messenger only clarifies that he was hit by shrapnel after the explosion. Sources of the publication noted that immediately after the injury, Reed wanted to return to the United States, but could not do this because of a contract with the Ukrainian army, so he asked the US government to evacuate him. According to CNN, Reed has already been transferred to Germany for treatment.

According to CNN, some US officials have expressed concern about the situation around Reid, as it could negatively affect the negotiations on the exchange of prisoners between the US and Russia, which are currently underway.

In the summer of 2021, the Golovinsky Court of Moscow found Reed guilty of using violence against a government official. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison and a fine of 300,000 rubles. for injured police officers. The attack took place in August 2019: the police arrived after a complaint from residents of a house on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow about a drunk man who had quarreled with several women. According to investigators, Reed attacked the driver of a police car and his partner while he was being taken to the police station.