The Russian Foreign Ministry spoke about the situation with the arrest of basketball player Greiner

MOSCOW, Jul 7 No further steps are needed regarding American basketball player Brittney Griner discuss until the court procedures are completed, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, commenting on the possibility of exchanging an American for a Russian Viktor Bout. «It is clear that we have not completed the necessary judicial procedures. Until this happens, there are no nominal further steps formal, procedural grounds, not to mention any other,” he told reporters. those who are waiting for the completion of the investigation of the relevant court verdicts speak of Washington's unwillingness to «perceive the world around us adequately.» Against this background, of course, it is difficult to engage in a substantive discussion of various kinds of exchanges, he added.