One year ago, Russia and the United States conducted the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War. Here's the Americans who were freed.

The months of complex negotiations, near misses and high-stakes diplomacy that resulted in the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War and freedom for a Wall Street Journal reporter.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva have landed in the United States, following of the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War.