The Kremlin offered to release Paul Whelan along with Brittney Griner in exchange for Viktor Bout and Vadim Krasikov, a former Russian colonel currently serving a life sentence for murder in Germany, CNN reports. The Biden Administration had offered a list of names of other Russians jailed in the US for Whelan, but the Kremlin had insisted on Krasikov, even though obviously it’s not the US’s decision what Germany does to their prisoners.