Who was freed in biggest Russia-West prisoner swap since the Cold War?

Journalists, artists, dissidents, hackers and a hitman go free as 26 swapped in large-scale prisoner exchange.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been freed as part of the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War.

Paul Whelan, a former US marine, as well as prominent Russian opposition politicians and activists who had been jailed for criticising the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, were also among the 16 people released by Russia.

Most prominent of those heading back to Moscow was Vadim Krasikov, who was serving a life sentence in Germany for the assassination of a former Chechen rebel commander in a Berlin park.

Below is a round-up of all those freed.

Lilia Chanysheva