This week's prisoner exchange between Russia and the West was a historic moment, the largest swap in post-Soviet times, involving 24 prisoners. Behind-the-scenes negotiations had intensified in recent months with tricky concessions required by the United States, Russia, Germany and three other European nations as international tensions over the war in Ukraine peaked.
US President Joe Biden called the Ankara-brokered deal a feat of diplomacy. Russia released 16 people, including US citizens Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, and Paul Whelan.
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