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A viral video shows the moment basketball player Brittney Griner was told she would be flying home to the United States after the Biden administration secured her release in a prisoner exchange with Russia, freeing her from the penal colony she'd been sent to after she was sentenced to nine years on smuggling charges.

The video shows Griner smiling after an interviewer, speaking with a translator, informed her she would be returned to the U.S.

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