The Biden administration has had communications with Russia to try and secure the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan “as recently as within past days,” a senior administration official says
The Biden administration has had communications with Russia to try and secure the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan “as recently as within past days” said a senior administration official, speaking to CNN on Griner’s 32nd birthday, which she will be spending in a Russian jail.
Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison in August, and the US Embassy has not had consular access to her since then, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said last week. However, US consular officers spoke by phone “briefly” with Griner and Whelan, principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said Tuesday. Griner released a statement on her birthday Tuesday thanking “everyone for fighting so hard to get home.
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