They changed her mind without Navalny: Germany canceled the exchange of the killer for prisoners in the Russian Federation - the media
The plans have changed as a result of death in the opposition colony Alexei Navalny. The decisions of the German government officials were told on the portal of Financial Times. Journalists spoke with unnamed sources in the German government. Anonymous interlocutors explained that Germany, as well as the United States, "noticeably cooled" to the idea of exchange, within which they could save three people from the Russian Federation.
Vadim Krasikov was planned to be sent to the Russian Federation, instead - the oppositionist Alexei Navalny, American journalist Evan Gershkovich and American military Paul Velan would be taken abroad. In recent weeks, an active discussion has been conducted on this option, but after the death of the opposition, these discussions have stopped, explained on the FT portal. "Berlin's interest in the agreement has extinguished," the journalists of the German government official said.
Also received a comment by an American official whose name is also not indicated. According to him, today they do not see a person, enough to release the killer, hired by the Kremlin. "They no longer imply anyone to whom they think it would be worth exchanging a killer sponsored by the state. " It should be noted that Vadim Krasikov is a citizen of the Russian Federation, who in 2019 was sentenced to the murder of Chechen oppositionist of Georgian origin of Zelimman Khangshvili.
Krasikov, according to the investigators of The Insider portal, is the FSB agent of the Russian Federation. He was sent to Germany to commit a crime against a man who in Germany tried to hide from the Russians. On August 23, 2019, the Russian shot Chechenets in Tirgarten Park - the court acknowledged that he had been ordering the Kremlin. Earlier, Focus wrote about Krasikov's case.
In particular, in December 2032, the German government sent two Russian diplomats involved in the crime from the territory of the country. Meanwhile, in the fall of 2023, the Kremlin hinted that they tend to exchange the killer on the oppositionist Navalny. Also, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about it during an interview he gave to American journalist Tair Carlson. Evan Gershkovich is the reporter of The Wall Street Journal, which was arrested in Moscow in the spring of 2023.
At the time of his arrest, he was precisely investigating the activities of the Wagner PEC and was in Yekaterinburg. The trial of the reporter has not yet taken place, but he is accused of spying. Paul Velan is the US Navy Exichot. The man was detained in Moscow in 2018, and in 2020 he was sentenced for espionage for 16 years. On February 16, 2024, the Russian Federal Service announced a sudden death in a colony of Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny.
According to the official version of the Kremlin, the Russian allegedly died because of a torn blood clot. Navalny's mother could not get the body of the dead son for several days: they feared that Russian authorities were trying to hide the traces of the crime. On February 25, the head of the Ministry of Defense Cyril Budanov stressed that the death of the oppositionman really had natural causes.