Russian authorities have detained a U.S. soldier on criminal misconduct charges, the Army said Monday, in a development likely to intensify tensions with Moscow over Americans held there.
Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said Russia’s government had notified the State Department that the soldier was taken into custody Thursday in Vladivostok, near the country’s borders with China and North Korea.
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