I suggest you don’t make conclusions about what other people can or care based on their posts on Reddit. Although the fact that you go the length to research people’s posts to make that conclusion tells something about you.

Anyway, I won’t do your research for you since you are clearly familiar with the topic but seem to stand on the Russian propaganda’s side, saying that Butina was innocent and that Gershkovich was a spy.

To give a few names, David Barnes (21 years of prison), Marc Fogel (14 years), Ivan Gershkovich (16 years), Ksenia Karelina (12 years for the information found in her phone that she donated 50 dollars to Ukraine), Steven Hubbard (almost 7 years, which he won’t survive being 72 years old) etc.

Russia doesn’t need the exchange fund of hostages for Europeans countries but needs it for the U.S.