U.S. offers Russia a deal for the release of Brittney Griner



TheU.S. has offered a deal to Russia aimed at bringing home WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jugged American, Paul Whelan, Secretary of State Antony Blinker said Wednesday. In a sharp reversal of former policy, Blinker also said he expects to speak with his Kremlin counterpart for the first time since before Russia raided Ukraine.


The statement marked the first time theU.S. government has intimately revealed any concrete action it has taken to secure the release of Grainer, who was arrested on medicine-affiliated charges at a Moscow field in February and witnessed Wednesday at hertrial.At her trial Wednesday, Griner said she didn't know how the cannabis oil painting ended up in her bag but explained she had a croaker

's recommendation for it and had packed in haste. She said she was pulled away at the field after inspectors set up the charges, but that a language practitioner restated only a bit of what was said during her questioning and that officers instructed her to subscribe documents without furnishing an explanation.

Grainer faces up to 10 times in captivity if condemned of transportingdrugs.TheU.S. government has long defied internee barters out of concern that it could encourage fresh hostage- taking and promote false equality between a wrongfully detained American and a foreign public regarded as justly condemned. But an earlier deal in April, in which Marine stager Trevor Reed was traded for jugged Russian airman, Konstantin Yare Korean, appeared to open the door to analogous judgments in the future and the Biden administration has been hounded with political pressure to bring home Griner and other Americans designated as unjustly detained.

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