GERMANY-RUSSIA-PRISONERS-DIPLOMACY

Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin, Russian activist Andrei Pivovarov and Russian journalist and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, arrive to address a press conference on August 2, 2024 in Bonn, western Germany, one day after they have been released from Russia as political prisoners in one of the biggest prisoner swaps between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. A total of 26 people, including two minors, from the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Belarus and Russia are involved in one of the biggest East-West prisoner swaps since the Cold War. The Kremlin on August 2, 2024 said that at least three Russians freed in the prisoner exchange were undercover Russian agents, a rare public admission into the work of Moscow's top-secret security services. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP) (Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)