{"id":287142,"date":"2022-07-28T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=287142"},"modified":"2022-07-28T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:06:10","slug":"kremlin-warns-washington-prisoner-swap-involving-griner-no-fanfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kremlin-warns-washington-prisoner-swap-involving-griner-no-fanfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin warns Washington that possible prisoner swap needs to needs to be negotiated without fanfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/biden-administration-offers-russian-arms-dealer-in-exchange-for-brittney-griner\/\">Washington offered Kremlin convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner<\/a>, as announced by convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Whelan and Griner on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>But Kremlin warned US government that possible prisoner swap involving WNBA star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated quietly without fanfare.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/34305768\/russia-wants-prisoner-swap-involving-brittney-griner-negotiated-fanfare\">ESPN<\/a>, Asked about the U.S. offer, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov replied that prisoner swaps were typically negotiated discreetly behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that such issues are discussed without any such release of information,&#8221; Peskov told reporters during a conference call. &#8220;Normally, the public learns about it when the agreements are already implemented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that &#8220;no agreements have been finalized&#8221; and refused to provide further details.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russian and U.S. officials have conducted negotiations about possible prisoner exchanges and &#8220;there has been no concrete result yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We proceed from the assumption that interests of both parties should be taken into account during the negotiations,&#8221; Zakharova said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin warned US government that possible prisoner swap involving WNBA star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated quietly without fanfare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":287143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-287142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wnba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/07\/1599px-Brittney_Griner_3.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287142"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=287142"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=287142"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=287142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}