Trevor Reed's mom's response to her son being launched by Russia was shared stay on air by CNN's Brianna Keilar on Wednesday.

Russia and the USA carried out a prisoner change on Wednesday, buying and selling Reed, a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow, for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year federal jail sentence in Connecticut for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.

Keilar was reporting the event on CNN when she revealed an incoming message from Reed's mom, Paula Reed, along with her first ideas about her son's return dwelling.

"They have been hopeful, however they'd additionally been so extremely frightened as a result of they had been involved that with this elevation, this conflict with Ukraine and the elevation of Trevor's case that it may very well be good in some regard and it is likely to be it is likely to be unhealthy in others," Keilar informed viewers.

"I am really texting together with his mom proper now," Keilar revealed. "Let me see. It is nonetheless gonna be a while earlier than they'll be capable to see him, she's telling me proper now. She says 'clearly, we're elated.' I can not even think about. I am certain that is an understatement too."

This can be a growing story and might be up to date when extra data is out there.

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Trevor Reed's mom texted a CNN journalist whereas she was stay on-air that she was "elated" that her son, Trevor Reed, was launched from jail in Russia. Above, a banner with an image of Reed, a U.S. Marine who's presently being detained in a Russian jail, hangs in Lafayette Park close to the White Home on March 30, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs