The United States and other countries in the West have completed their biggest prisoner swap with Russia in post-Soviet history, officials said.Among those released by Moscow include Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive with joint British nationality from Michigan and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has joint Russian and British nationality.The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Mosco

The United States and other countries in the West have completed their biggest prisoner swap with Russia in post-Soviet history, officials said.Among those released by Moscow include Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, a corporate security executive with joint British nationality from Michigan and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has joint Russian and British nationality.The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.