WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released in a US-Russian prisoner swap with Viktor Bout, ending her 294-day ordeal in Russian custody. #brittneygriner #usa #russia #prison #WNBA #america #biden #basketball | WNBA star Brittney Griner is on her way back home to the US after being exchanged in a prisoner swap with a notorious arms dealer. | Many saw her arrest and sentence as politically motivated. Arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the “merchant of death,” has also been freed after 12 years in a US jail. | Griner was jailed for 9 years on spurious narcotics charges after being arrested at a Moscow airport a week before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. | Brittney Griner Has Been Freed from Russian Jail in a Prisoner Swap