Kremlin hails return of spies but says swap won’t end fight over Ukraine

In a piece from the Washington Post about the historic prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia, Prof. Konstantin Sonin's X post was cited: 

Contract killers returning to the U.S.S.R. in Soviet times were greeted warmly — but secretly,” Sonin posted on X. “Putin seems no longer to care about any audience save for the FSB/spy community.”

Read the full story here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/02/russia-prisoner-swap-putin-biden/