New details are emerging about the high-stakes negotiations that brought the release of American basketball star but left former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan languishing in prison – including Russia's demand to liberate an assassin serving a life sentence for carrying out a daylight slaying in .The Biden administration had been trying to negotiate for the release of both Griner and Whelan for months. But as the U.S. tried to secure their freedom and even dangled convicted 'Merchant of Death' arms trafficker Viktor Bout, Moscow added its own demand.Russia wanted the release of Vadim Krasikov, a former FSB colonel who was convicted of gunning down a Georgia-born Chechen separatist in broad daylight in a central Berlin park in June 2019, as the price for freeing both Americans, the reported.
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