Watch: From captivity to freedom - How prisoner swap unfolded

Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva were among the Americans freed in the prisoner swap.

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In the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War, journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, along with US Marine veteran Paul Whelan, were returned safely to US soil.

President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris were on the runway to meet the freed prisoners as they disembarked.

In exchange, one of the prisoners returned to Russia was Vadim Krasikov, a suspected Russian agent who was serving a life sentence for murder in Germany.

Watch how the night unfolded.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ckvg7wlz0k2o

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