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2022-12-08 22:31:13+00:00
WNBA star Brittney Griner and arms dealer Viktor Bout freed in second U.S.-Russia prisoner swap this year.
Griner pled guilty to drug smuggling charges and was sentenced to nine years in prison after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage at a Moscow airport in February 2022.
Bout was arrested in 2008 and later convicted and sentenced to a 25-year jail term for conspiring to kill U.S. nationals and provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
The Griner-Bout swap follows a similar exchange in April that secured the release of former U.S. marine Trevor Reed and Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko.
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2022-12-21 06:20:59+00:00
❗️Zelensky to meet Biden and address Congress on Wednesday in his first foreign trip since February.
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2022-12-21 05:45:17+00:00
❗️Putin to skip the annual address to the Federal Assembly in 2022 (Russia’s State of the Union), breaking with this constitutional obligation for the first time in post-Soviet history.
Additionally, the Kremlin also announced earlier that the Russian leader would not be holding his traditional end-of-the-year press conference for the first time in a decade, nor his signature Direct Line Q&A event with the people of Russia.
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2022-12-22 19:27:00+00:00
New York Times releases findings of a months-long investigation that appears to show evidence pinning a specific Russian regiment and its commander to the killings of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine.
Russian authorities have thus far denied even the possibility that its soldiers could bare any responsibility for the massacre and instead claimed that Ukraine faked the footage of the bodies or staged the killings itself as a false flag operation.
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2022-12-22 03:39:55+00:00
Zelensky contradicts Biden’s claim that Ukraine is open to pursuing peace and calls Russians “inhumans” during a joint press conference at the White House.
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