Watch: US-Russia Prisoner Swap On Airport Tarmac, Basketball Star Freed
Washington: American basketball famous person Brittney Griner became headed returned to the USA on Thursday after being launched from a Russian jail in change for an hands supplier referred to as the "Merchant of Death."
Griner, 32, who became arrested in Russia in February on drug expenses, and Viktor Bout, 55, who became serving a 25-yr sentence in a US jail, had been exchanged at an airport in Abu Dhabi.
In photos launched via way of means of Russian kingdom media, Griner, shorn of her different dreadlocks, and a comfortable and lively Bout might be visible crossing paths at the airport tarmac and heading in the direction of the planes that might take them home.
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President Joe Biden introduced Griner's launch early Thursday in an cope with...