00:00Tomorrow's a big day. The 13th birthday of Miriam.
00:06U.S. President Joe Biden sang happy birthday to Miriam Butnering, the daughter of Russian-American
00:11journalist Altsukhlo Mosheva, one of two dozen detainees freed from Russia on August 1.
00:16Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
00:21Wall Street Journal reported Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were also released
00:27in the biggest prisoner exchange since the Cold War, according to Reuters. The White
00:31House said the U.S. negotiated the complex trade with Russia and other countries, resulting
00:36in eight prisoners held in the West being sent back to Russia. Germany confirmed that
00:40the exchange included Vadim Krasikov, convicted of murdering an exiled dissident in Berlin.
00:46Turkey, which coordinated the exchange, stated that 10 prisoners, including two minors, had
00:51been moved to Russia, 13 to Germany, and three to the United States, Poland, Slovenia, Norway,
00:57and Belarus were also involved in the swap.
