Brittney Griner: Joe Biden vows to ‘get her home’ from Russian penal colony

Biden expresses hopes that Russia might be more open to a prisoner swap to end basketball star's wrongful' detention

Joe Biden pledged on Wednesday to secure the return of US basketball star Brittney Griner, who, it emerged earlier in the day, had been transferred last week from a detention center outside Moscow and was on her way to a Russian penal colony.

I'm telling you I'm determined to get her home and get her home safely," the US president said on Wednesday afternoon during a press conference at the White House that focused chiefly on the results of the midterm elections.