Basketball star released as US agrees to free convicted arms dealer in dramatic prisoner swap
The US basketball star Brittney Griner has been freed from prison in Russia in a dramatic high-level prisoner swap for the notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who has been held in an American prison for 12 years.
The swap, at a time of heightened tensions over Ukraine, achieved a top goal for Joe Biden but carried a heavy price and left behind an American jailed for nearly four years.
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