Vladimir Putin gave the Russian nationals freed in a historic prisoner exchange with the West a hero’s welcome as they arrived in Moscow on Thursday.
The Russian leader personally greeted the eight Russian nationals as they stepped off the plane, in the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War.
He welcomed Vadim Krasikov, who was convicted over an assassination in Germany, Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, whom he gave a bouquet of flowers, Mikhail Mikushin, Pavel Rubtsov, Roman Seleznev, Vladislav Klyushin and Vadim Konoshchenok.
“I want to congratulate you on your return to the motherland,” Putin said as they disembarked at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport.
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