German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a press statement at the Cologne/Bonn international airport in Cologne, western Germany on August 1, 2024, after German political prisoners have been released in one of the biggest prisoner swaps between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. A total of 26 people, including two minors, from the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Belarus and Russia are involved in one of the biggest East-West prisoner swaps since the Cold War. (Photo by Christoph Reichwein / POOL / AFP)