Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Federal Security Service (FSB) Chief Alexander Bortnikov, right, and Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Chief Sergei Naryshkin, third right, meets Russian citizens released after the Russian-US prisoner swap in Turkiye at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia. On August 1, Ankara hosted the Russian-US exchange of 26 individuals held in prisons in the US, 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. Those returned to Russia include Artem and Anna Dultsev with their children, Vadim Krasikov, Pavel Rubtsov, Mikhail Mikushin, Roman Seleznev, Vladislav Klyushin, and Vadim Konoshchenok.
