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The US is waiting for a “serious response” from Russia to a series of proposals regarding the release of the basketball star Brittney Griner, a senior US diplomat said.



Elizabeth Rood, the US chargée d’affaires in Moscow, told Russia’s state-owned RIA news agency that talks about freeing Griner – who was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony on charges of possessing and smuggling drugs – were ongoing. But Rood said Russia was yet to seriously engage.


Reuters reported that the proposals also included a deal to free Paul Whelan, a former US marine who is serving 16 years in prison in Russia on charges of espionage, which he denies.

Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said on 18 November that he was hopeful of agreeing a prisoner swap that could see the release of Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian weapons trafficker who is in prison in the US.