Whelan, who was arrested in Russia in 2018, got little sleep and used secret cellphones to communicate with prisoners sent to the frontlines in Ukraine.
Washington — In December 2022, Paul Whelan was sitting in a factory at a Russia n labor camp in Mordovia, more than seven hours east of Moscow, adding buttons and buttonholes to winter coats. He was summoned to the prison warden's office and was hopeful that someone from the U.S. government was calling to tell him they had finally secured his freedom, Whelan told 'Face the Nation' in his first interview since he was released in a complex prisoner swap in August. Instead, a U.S.
' The labor camp housed mainly prisoners from Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, he said, describing his fellow prisoners as a 'close-knit family.' They were much younger than Whelan, now 54, and helped him figure out how to send messages back and forth through the prison communication network with Reed before his release, he said. 'Knowing that he was there … gave me some strength and helped me get through my ordeal,' Whelan said.
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