Journalist Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans were among two dozen prisoners released.
Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva embracing family members as US President Joe Biden and US Vice-President Kamala Harris look on at Joint Base Andrews on Aug 1.
Mr Gershkovich, who is a Wall Street Journal reporter, former US marine Paul Whelan, and journalist Alsu Kurmasheva were greeted by cheers from family and friends as they disembarked a plane, before each embracing Mr Biden and Ms Harris. In total, 10 Russians, including two minors, were exchanged for 16 Westerners and Russians imprisoned in Russia in a dramatic exchange on the airport tarmac in Turkey’s capital Ankara.“Their brutal ordeal is over,” Mr Biden told a news conference at the White House earlier, flanked by the overjoyed families of the freed prisoners.
They included Mr Vadim Krasikov, a Russian intelligence agent imprisoned in Germany for assassinating a former Chechen rebel.The historic swop happened after months of top secret negotiations, and involved Russian prisoners freed from Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and the US, and on the other side from Russia and Belarus.
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