Brittney Griner for Viktor But, Cold War-style prisoner exchange between the US and Russia

MOSCA – The prisoner exchange took place at the UAE’s Abu Dhabi airport as in a remake of “Bridge of Spies”, a Cold War flashback. On one side was the American basketball player Brittney Grineron the other the Russian death merchant Viktor But.

An important goal for the US president Joe Biden at a time of heightened tensions with Russia due to the so-called Russian “special military operation” in Ukraine, but which entailed an important price such as the release of the notorious But, which Moscow has been coveting for years.

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