Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout's UAE Prisoner Swap Caught on Video

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Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout passed each other on the tarmac of a UAE airport in the hours after the US and Russia agreed to a prisoner swap...and the moment was captured on video.

The footage, shot by Russian state media TASS, was released on Thursday afternoon.

In the clip, you can see Griner, dressed in a red jacket, walking with officials outside private planes... before making contact with Bout.

The men in the video all shook hands once within a few feet of each other. It's unclear if Griner and Bout did the same - the video was cut as the WNBA star appeared to walk towards the arms dealer.

In the images you can clearly see that Griner's signature dreadlocks have been cut. When we last saw her during a court hearing in late October, her hair was still long.

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Another video released on Thursday shows Griner being in good spirits after the exchange between the two countries concluded...telling someone on a plane that she was 'good' and 'happy'.< /p>

Griner had been detained in Russia since February — following allegations that she brought hash oil in her luggage to a Moscow airport. In August, she was sentenced to nine years in prison in this case.