Andy Jassy stated that Amazon has not commented publicly on the hostages for worry that it will negatively influence their skill to be launched, or how they had been handled in captivity.
After remaining silent since October 7, 2023, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has welcomed the discharge of hostage Sasha Troufanov, {an electrical} engineer at Amazon unit Annapurna Labs.
Jassy wrote in an e-mail to workers, ‘I am extremely relieved to share the information that our AWS teammate Sasha Troufanov, who has been held hostage because the October 7, 2023 assaults in Israel, has been launched from captivity. Troufanov was held in captivity together with his mom, grandmother and girlfriend, throughout which period his father was killed. His mom, grandmother and girlfriend had been launched in November 2023. Since we realized of Sasha and his household’s abduction, we’ve had a devoted workforce working behind the scenes with specialists to help efforts to safe their launch and to make sure that we did the fitting factor for them and their security (together with painfully not commenting publicly for worry that we’d negatively influence their skill to be launched or how they had been handled in captivity).”
Jassy continued, ‘It has been a particularly attempting time for everyone who is aware of and cares for Sasha – quite a lot of angst and emotions of helplessness. However it will probably’t method what Sasha and his household have been by way of and we’ll proceed to help them and do all the things we are able to to assist them heal. I share your gratitude and aid that Sasha and different hostages had been launched in the present day. My coronary heart goes out to everybody who has been impacted by the struggle and I proceed to hope that we get on a long-term peaceable path.”
Since Troufanov was taken hostage, Amazon has carried out a coverage of full silence on the matter of its Tel Aviv worker, apart from some inside occasions organized by the corporate’s administration. Neta Yessod-Alon, good friend of Troufanov, has instructed “Globes” prior to now that Amazon had been suggested consultants on hostage negotiations to not make Troufanov an emblem.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on February 16, 2025.
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Sasha Troufanov credit score: IDF Spokesperson
