Reuters reports that Russia’s foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that a woman arrested in the United States on accusations she was a Russian agent had been detained on “fabricated charges.”
Sergei Lavrov made the comments about Maria Butina in a phone call to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He told Pompeo she should be released.
On Wednesday, a U.S. judge ordered Butina jailed until her trial after U.S.