She was released last week as part of the prisoner swap between the US, Russia, and other countries. On Thursday, an FSB officer told us we were going to be freed as part of a prisoner swap — the miracle we had been waiting and hoping for. On the morning of the exchange, as we were being moved around, I didn't know the prisoner swap was happening. Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko, also known as Sasha, left, with her girlfriend, Sonia Subbotina, right, after the prisoner swap. They all knew that the only thing I wanted to do was walk, walk, walk.

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Persons: —, Aleksandra, Sasha, Skochilenko, I'd, Sonia, Aleksandra Skochilenko, Sonia Subbotina, hadn't, I'm, Sonia Skochilenko Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Russian, Russia, Ankara, Turkey, Istanbul, Frankfurt, Germany