#prisonerswap — Public Fediverse posts

In all, 16 political prisoners, journalists and others, including five Germans, were exchanged for eight Russians jailed in the U.S., Germany, Norway, Slovenia and Poland.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/national/2024/08/02/495491/americans-released-in-russian-prisoner-swap-are-back-in-the-u-s/

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Inside the "painstaking" negotiations that led to the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War.

CNN recaps how the unlikely deal came together: https://flip.it/6xSmSC

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