From a Wall Street Journal story by Georgi Kantchev and Louise Radnofsky headlined “Russia Discusses Prisoner Swaps With U.S.”:

Russia is in contact with the U.S. regarding prisoner swaps, a Kremlin spokesman said in a briefing, after consular visits to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in detention in Russia and a Russian held in the U.S.

Dmitry Peskov on Tuesday was asked to comment on the possibility of a prisoner exchange in light of the recent visits to Gershkovich and Vladimir Dunaev, according to reports of the briefing on Russian state media.