# Russia detains Swedish citizen as Moscow eyes future prisoner swaps

https://mins.news/en/item/101222

- euronews, 2026-10-15 10:25 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/15/russia-detains-swedish-citizen-as-moscow-eyes-future-prisoner-swaps

> Russia’s FSB arrested a Swedish citizen in Pskov region on terrorism charges and Japanese journalist Yuki Imai on espionage charges in Sakhalin. Days earlier, former president Medvedev wrote that Russia might need to “fill up the exchange pool with European and American idiots” to recover Russians held abroad.

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