President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he’s “determined” to bring Brittney Griner back stateside and hopes Russian president Vladimir Putin will be ”willing to talk more seriously about a prisoner exchange” now that U.S. midterm elections are done.
His comments came hours after the WNBA star’s legal team revealed she had been transferred to a penal colony in Russia. Her lawyers do “not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination,” they said, per the Associated Press. Just last month, the appeal on Griner’s nine-year sentence for drug possession was rejected.