“Vice President Kamala Harris played a role in negotiations with allies to secure the prisoner-swap deal,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Harris met with both German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob separately in intimate settings during the Munich Security Conference in February to urge both leaders to push the deal through.”
“Harris’s meeting with Scholz was particularly critical to securing the exchange because releasing Krasikov was a key Russian demand. The two first had a normal bilateral meeting before Harris asked Scholz to stay back for a ‘restricted bilateral,’ the official said. Harris asked everyone to leave except Scholz and one aide on each side.”
