'You understand when I say that I can't do an interview, which means that I can't answer any questions,' Whelan told a Russia Today reporter.
, imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges that he and the U.S. government have long dismissed as spurious, has made a rare appearance in a video broadcast by Russian state media. In a piece aired Monday by the Kremlin-backed Russia Today network, Whelan is seen in black overalls and a black hat in a penal colony in the Mordovia region.
Sitting at a sewing machine, the bespectacled U.S. national is approached by an RT reporter for an interview: "Today was the first time I've seen what he really looks like since June 2020," Whelan's brother David Whelan said in a statement seen by CBS News."So thank you, Russia Today, because although your reporting is the worst sort of propaganda and you are the mouthpiece for war criminals, at least I could see what Paul looks like after all of these years."
"I wish I could see Paul under better circumstances. But it was good to see him again and to see the fight remains in his eyes," wrote his brother."It is good to know Paul remains unbowed."Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by phone with the imprisoned Whelan in mid-August, telling him to"keep the faith" and promising that the U.S. government was"doingas soon as possible," according to a source familiar with the call who spoke with CBS News.
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