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re: US Swop Basketball Star For CRIMINAL & Innocent US Man Left in RUSSIAN Jail??
US Swap For Merchant of Death
Russia frees US basketball star Brittney Griner in prisoner swap for Viktor Bout
BBC News 9 DEC 2022.
The US and Russia have agreed to a prisoner swap between basketball star Brittney Griner and arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Griner was arrested at Moscow airport in February for possessing cannabis oil and last month sent to a penal colony.
Viktor Bout, known as the 'merchant of death, has been locked up in the US for the past 12 years after being convicted of gun-running in the years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue attacking Ukrainian energy systems in comments made at a champagne reception in the Kremlin. The Russian leader added that global criticism of strikes that have left millions without power in winter would "not interfere with our combat missions".
Meanwhile, Russia has released US basketball star Brittney Griner in a prisoner swap for a notorious arms dealer nicknamed "the Merchant of Death". It came as Angela Merkel admitted that she should have spent more money on Germany's military while chancellor.
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