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The US and Russia have exchanged jailed US basketball star Brittney Griner for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, held in an American prison for 12 years.

President Joe Biden said Griner was safe and on a plane home from the United Arab Emirates.

"I'm glad to say Brittney's in good spirits... she needs time and space to recover," he said at the White House.

Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport in February for possessing cannabis oil and last month sent to a penal colony.

The Biden administration proposed a prisoner exchange last July, aware Moscow had long sought Bout's release.

Russia's foreign ministry confirmed the swap and said it had taken place at Abu Dhabi airport. "The Russian citizen has been returned to his homeland," it said in a statement, although he was not yet thought to have arrived on Russian soil.

Viktor Bout, dubbed the "merchant of death" sold arms to warlords and rogue governments, becoming one of the world's most wanted men.

His secretive career was brought to an end by an elaborate US sting in 2008, when he was arrested at a hotel in the Thai capital Bangkok, to the anger of the Russian government.

He was extradited two years later and has spent the past 12 years in an American jail for conspiring to support terrorists and kill Americans.

The 成人快手's Barbara聽Plett聽Usher explains the current situation and its "sudden resolution."

(Photo: U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, stands inside a defendants' cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina)

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