Arrested in 2008, Bout was serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S. for conspiring to sell weapons to people who intended to kill Americans. Aug. 1, 2024 Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva and Paul Whelan after their release from Russia in a prisoner swap on Aug. 1, 2024. U...
American ballet dancer freed from Russian prison in overnight prisoner swap Former ballerina Ksenia Karelina, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen who faced 12 years in a Russian prison for donating $52 to a Ukraine charity, is returning to America after being wrongfully detained. ...
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said earlier that the president would be making these calls to those involved in the prison swap and commended the president for his “intricate statecraft.” Link Copied! 4:28 a.m. 2:30:27, August 2, 2024 ...
wasVadim Krasikov, a convicted murdererwho was sentenced to life in prison by a German court in 2021 for killing a Georgian asylee who had fought against Russians in Chechnya. German judges said the killing had been ordered by Russian federal authorities and called it "state terrorism...
An assassin and 'sleeper cell' couple - the Russians freed under historic prisoner swap with West 2 Aug2nd August World Analysis Analysis Just like Biden, Putin also met exchanged prisoners at the airport - a signal his intelligence officers won't be abandoned 2 Aug2nd August World Vid...
Earlier on Saturday, Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-backed head of the Donetsk region - one of four regions of Ukraine that Russia unilaterally proclaimed as its territory last month - also said a prisoner swap with Ukraine was taking place. He said 50 people from each side were being exch...
At least two Russian nationals serving prison sentences for cybercrime offenses, Vladislav Klyushin and Roman Seleznev, were released as part of the landmark prisoner swap.
Trump, who said he did not have details of the swap, asked whether "murderers, killers, or thugs" were released. "Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps," the Republican presidential nominee said on social media. Also involved in the deal...
Biden issued an executive grant of clemency to free the arms dealer from a federal prison in Illinois to effect the prisoner swap, showing the administration's willingness to exchange him to ensure Griner's freedom. The detention of one of the greatest players in WNBA history contributed to a...
"Sympathy has no citizenship and nationality, it is a universal human emotion," she told Russian news agency RIA Novosti, expressing hope that Russia and the U.S. would "come to an agreement." Moscow and Washington have already conducted one prisoner swap since the start of Moscow's Ukraine...