The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history on Thursday, with Moscow releasing journalist Evan Gershkovich and fellow American Paul Whelan, along with dissidents including Vladimir Kara-Murza, in a multinational deal that set two dozen people free, officials said. The trade followed years of secretive back-channel negotiations despite relations between Washington and Moscow being at their lowest point since the Cold War after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/nation-world/russia-releasing-americans-evan-gershkovich-paul-whelan/507-0bdf3429-08c9-44bb-b762-3e3642d562b5