WNBA player Brittney Griner and ex-US marine Paul Whelan could be released from their Russian prison cells by the end of this year, former US Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson said Sunday following a visit to Moscow last month.
“I am cautiously optimistic on the Greiner- Wheeler negotiations,” Richardson told CNN’s “State of the Union,” misnaming the former US Marine serving time as an accused spy. “I am cautiously optimistic. I think it’s going to be a two-for-two deal.”
