'On her way home': Brittney Griner freed from Russian jail in prisoner swap – video report
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The US basketball star Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian jail and is on her way back to the US, President Joe Biden said on Thursday. The Russian foreign ministry said it had traded Griner for Viktor Bout, a notorious arms dealer who had been held in a US prison for 12 years.
The swap took place at an airport in Abu Dhabi, Russian news agencies reported. Griner, 32, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was arrested on 17 February. Talks to secure her release were complicated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February and the subsequent souring of ties between Washington and Moscow
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