TASS news agency on Thursday published footage of the US basketball star Brittney Griner on her way back home following the swap for Russian national Viktor Bout.
Griner was reportedly released from a penal colony in Russia’s Mordovia region and taken to the exchange site on a special plane. "I’m happy", she said in the video.
Earlier on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Viktor Bout, who was serving out a prison sentence in the United States on arms trafficking charges, was returning to Russia as a result of an agreement with the US to exchange him for American basketball player Brittney Griner, who was convicted in Russia of drug smuggling. The swap took place in Abu Dhabi, and now Bout is on board a special flight on its way to Moscow.
VIDEO SOURCE: EUROVISION / RUITAR via CBS NEWSPATH
