As WNBA star Brittney Griner recovers at a military base in San Antonio, Texas, her agent says she played basketball for the first time since her release from a Russian prison.
Roger Carstens, the Biden administration's top hostage negotiator, toldBrittney Griner flies home with negotiator Roger Carstens and others who helped assist in her release from Russia."She spoke at length about what it was like to undergo that 10-month ordeal," Carstens said, declining to go into further detail.
"I felt like I had 500 pounds lifted off my shoulders," Raymond Griner said."This was the hardest thing I've experienced in my life." "We believe that there are plays we can continue to try to run, things that we have had in motion that we are still working on that could potentially lead to a positive result here," said Jake Sullivan, President Biden's national security adviser. Viktor Bout
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