MOSCOW, March 21./TASS/. US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy has met with US national and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained in Russia on espionage charges.

"Ambassador Tracy visited WSJ journalist Evan Gershkovich today at the Lefortovo Detention Center," the Embassy in Moscow posted on its Telegram channel.

In February, the Moscow City Court dismissed an appeal against the extension of Gershkovich's arrest. The court's press service told TASS that the journalist will remain in custody until March 30, 2024.

According to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, "acting as an agent for the American side, collected top-secret data about the activity of an enterprise of the Russian military-industrial complex." In this connection, the journalist was detained in Yekaterinburg at the end of March 2023; criminal proceedings were initiated against him under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Espionage").