WARNER, KAINE, COLLEAGUES URGE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO ESCALATE EFFORTS TO SECURE RELEASE OF U.S. NATIONALS DETAINED IN RUSSIA

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Tim Kaine issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), along with 14 of their Senate colleagues, urged the Trump administration to employ all diplomatic, economic, and political means available to secure the release of five U.S. nationals who have been detained by Russia - multiple of whom have been detained for more than four years. Virginian Charles "Chuck" Zimmerman is one of the five U.S. nationals currently detained. In the years following Russia's illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has wrongfully detained multiple visiting U.S. citizens, sentencing them to years of detention with little to no evidence of criminality and using the...