I have been watching this process take place and as in any sensitive subject you must stay quiet about things like this. At least while they happen. This is really an exchange for innocent children vs actual spies for the west and east and as in any case involving children, thank goodness the children got home. I do not approve and or disapprove either way in this case. Just the children got home to Russia…
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has released a video showing the moment before 16 people released by Moscow to the West were about to fly to Türkiye for the planned exchange.
https://www.rt.com/russia/602021-video-biggest-prisoner-swap/
Moscow and Washington have swapped a total of 26 prisoners in the biggest exchange of this type in modern history. According to the FSB, eight Russian nationals held in the US, Germany, Norway, Poland, and Slovenia, and two children returned in exchange for individuals who “acted in the interests of foreign states to the detriment of the security of the Russian Federation.”
And vice versa…
Putin met the families that had been jailed by the USA…
WtR