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A video shows the moment WNBA star Brittney Griner touched down on US soil after nine months in Russian custody.
Griner arrived in San Antonio, Texas, shortly after 5:30 a.m. ET on Friday, CNN reported. In footage shared by multiple news channels including CNN and NBC News, the basketball star is seen exiting the plane and crossing the tarmac by herself.
US officials who met Griner upon her arrival told CNN that she was “in good spirits and incredibly gracious.”
Roger Carstens, a State Department official who was traveling with Griner, tweeted on Friday morning: “So happy to have Brittney back on US soil. Welcome home BG!”
Griner was detained at an airport in Moscow, Russia, in February for carrying cannabis oil in her luggage.
