Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump did not discuss the case of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, currently serving a 20-year sentence in a US jail, during their Monday summit in Helsinki, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
“The issue of Yaroshenko’s case was not brought up,” Peskov told the Izvestia newspaper.
In a letter to Russian High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova in July, Yaroshenko complained about being tortured and called for a fair trial where violations of his rights would be made public.
Last week, Moskalkova said she hoped that Putin and Trump would discuss Yaroshenko’s case as well as a possibility of his pardon.
