USA “will be held accountable for Russian Viktor Buta, if he continues the previous” line of work “, said the coordinator for strategic communications in the National Security Council (SNB) of the White House John Kirby.
Kirby emphasized that the United States intends to protect its own national security. “If Mr. Bout decides to return to his former line of work, then we will do what is necessary to hold him accountable and protect our interests,” Russian media quotes Kirby.
December 9, the American basketball player Britney Grainer, who served in the Russian Federation, was exchanged at Abu Dhabi Airport at Viktor Butita Baron, sentenced in the United States for 25 years for weapons trafficking.