In the early hours of the morning freed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich landed at Joint Airbase Andrews in Maryland. The freed political prisoners were greeted by Biden and Harris…

The prisoner exchange included Gershkovkich, who had been held for 490 days on fantasy espionage charges, the former US marine Paul Whelan, arrested in 2018 after being accused of spying,  and the journalist and Radio Free Europe’s Alsu Kurmasheva. Russia got eight nationals in return, three held in US prisons. Andrew Sullivan said that opposition politician Alexei Navalny was meant to be part of the deal…

The prisoner swap took place in Ankara yesterday. Welcome home.