‘We will have an engagement with them this week,” Sullivan said.
“With respect to the question of whether we’ve had engagement with the Russian Federation on the Whelan case, we will have an engagement with them this week,” Sullivan told reporters.
“He’s not listed as a specially designated national. What we consider him to have been was a convicted criminal — convicted of arms trafficking and other crimes,” he said. Whelan, 52, was arrested in Russia in 2018 and ultimately sentenced to 16 years in prison for espionage. His defense attorney
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