In this handout video grab released by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), German citizen Rico Krieger, pardoned after being sentenced to death in Belarus for working for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), boards a bus during the Russian-US prisoner exchange at an airport in Ankara, Turkiye. On August 1, Ankara hosted the Russian-US exchange of 26 individuals held in prisons in the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia, and Belarus. Ten of the prisoners exchanged, including two minors, went to Russia, 13 to Germany, and three to the US. Editorial use only, no archive, no commercial use.
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- Package: Russia US Prisoner Swap
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Russian Federal Security Service
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 1432x831px, 597.7Kb
- Job-ID: a40d1290e6dc2aea