Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a high-profile prisoner exchange, as the U.S. released Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Even so, the fact that the deal was a one-for-one swap was a surprise given that U.S. officials had for months expressed their determination to bring home both Griner anda Michigan corporate security executive jailed in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government has said are baseless.
“We didn’t want to lose the opportunity today to secure the release of one of them,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken.but also disappointed for his family. He credited the White House with giving the Whelan family advance notice and said he did not fault officials for making the deal. Bout, whose deeds were featured in a Hollywood movie, was serving a 25-year sentence on charges that he conspired to sell tens of millions of dollars in weapons that U.S officials said were to be used against Americans. Biden issued an executive grant of clemency to free the arms dealer from a federal prison in Illinois to effect the prisoner swap.
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