A former Russian ambassador to Washington has claimed that US President Joe Biden is desperate to secure WNBA player Brittney Griner’s release to get a boost in next month’s midterm elections:
“In this tense situation, the way I see it, [Biden] thinks first and foremost about the upcoming midterm elections, which is why he keeps bringing up the need to return the basketball player who was arrested for delivering drugs,” said Yuri Ushakov during an interview that aired Sunday on the state-run Rossiya-1 channel, according to TASS.
“But this is not the most important issue that concerns us,” he added.
