Senior members of the Biden administration are set to have 'high level engagement' with Russian counterparts as the hopes tries to exploit an existing channel to free U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who continues to languish in a Russian prison.White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan revealed the contact Monday at the White House as the administration faces ongoing pressure about the deal that greed WNBA star in exchange for convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout. 'We will have an engagement with them this week,' Sullivan said of the Russians. 'I won't say more about it, because we're trying to keep that in sensitive channels. But that's the timetable.'
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