The US State Department urged Russia to "constructively" cooperate on the exchange of prisoners

According to him, the American side will do "everything possible" to return US citizens Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner, convicted in Russia.

“However, we will continue to urge the Russians to interact constructively so that we can achieve a settlement of this issue,” Price said at a briefing, TASS said.

Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced that Moscow was ready to take action on the exchange of prisoners with the participation of Brittney Greiner.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced his readiness to discuss the exchange of prisoners with the United States, but only through a special channel approved by the presidents of states.