Basketball star released as US agrees to free convicted arms dealer in dramatic prisoner swap
Russia freed the WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange, with the US releasing the notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, American officials said.
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 in Russia.
