The whale, nicknamed Hvaldimir, became famous in 2019 after it was spotted wearing a specially made harness with mounts for a camera.
"As I speak, Belgium's Olivier Vandecasteele is on his way to Belgium. If all goes to plan, he'll be with us this evening. Free at last," Belgian PM Alexander De Croo said in a statement on Friday.
Gershkovich is the first US journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War.
The spy agency allegedly focused on Iranians holding key positions in government and "sensitive institutions."
The cell allegedly had targeted one company and 23 individuals who conducted commercial relations with Iran.
Benny Morris has done a brilliant job in attempting to reconstruct the life and times of Sidney George Reilly – the mystery man of espionage and also a poor Jewish boy from the shtetl.
The Pentagon declined to comment on new information reported by the New York Times, that Teixeira began to post the information in February 2022.
The fleet of Russian "ghost ships" includes both military and civilian ships and reportedly has the goal planning acts of sabotage against the Nordic nations.
A conviction on the Espionage Act charge carries up to 10 years in prison.
A Moscow court next week will hear an appeal by Gershkovich's legal team against a ruling that he be held in pre-trial detention at Moscow's Lefortovo prison until at least May 29.
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