US and Russia to explore more prisoner swaps

Key Facts

The White House is under pressure to free ex-US Marine Paul Whelan, who has been in a Russian jail for four years.
Griner was taken to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, upon landing in the US, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday.
This summer, Russia told the US it would be willing to swap Whelan for Vadim Krasikov, a former colonel from Russia's domestic spy organisation who is in German custody, according to a US official.
The US appealed to the German government to try to include Krasikov - who was convicted of killing a Georgian citizen in Berlin in 2019 - but the country denied this request, the official said.