December 28, 2023
Today marks an appalling milestone: five years Paul Whelan has spent in wrongful detention in Russia. We once again call on Russia to release him immediately.
We continue to work intensively to bring him home to his loved ones. Our thoughts are with him and his remarkably strong family today.
Joseph R. Biden, Statement by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Paul Whelan Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368809