Oleg Davygora17:21, 01.08.24
In addition to Putin’s killer Krasikov, other Russians who were imprisoned, in particular for cybercrimes, should also be released.
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has carried out its largest exchange operation in recent times.
The operation involved the mutual exchange of a total of 26 individuals who were in prisons in 7 different countries (USA, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus) in Ankara, TRT Haber writes .
The operation involved the exchange of persons transported to Turkey on a total of 7 planes, 2 from the United States and 1 each from Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Russia; 10 hostages were transferred to Russia, 13 hostages to Germany and 3 hostages to the United States.
Among others, the “Tiergarten killer” Vadim Krasikov will be handed over to Russia. The Russian intelligence agent was caught in 2019 after a contract killing in the German capital. Krasikov shot and killed Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
In addition to Putin’s killer Krasikov, other Russians who were imprisoned, in particular for cybercrimes, should also be released.
Among these people are also: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and US Marine Paul Whelan, who are in prison in the Russian Federation, German citizen Rico Krieger, who is in prison in Belarus, and Russian dissidents Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza.
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will make a statement this evening regarding the historic prisoner exchange. According to BILD, he wants to personally receive the hostages freed by Russia.
The Kremlin has not yet commented on the issue of prisoner exchange in Turkey, said Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
This operation went down in history as the largest hostage exchange between the United States, Russia and Germany in recent years. MIT ensured the creation of channels of dialogue for this historic operation. The parties were brought together in Turkey in July 2024 by MIT, which effectively uses intelligence diplomacy. MIT successfully carried out its mediation activities from the beginning to the end of the negotiations.
Due to the large number of hostages to be exchanged, all individuals were escorted off the planes under the supervision of MIT personnel and taken to secure areas. On site, representatives of all parties signed the exchange agreement and documented the health status of each participant. They were then all placed on planes back to their home countries.
Attempts to exchange Krasnikov
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on whether Moscow was planning to exchange Alexei Navalny for FSB killer Vadim Krasikov the day before his death.
He commented on the theory of such an exchange to the Financial Times newspaper, denying that he knew anything about such agreements with Berlin.
“I am not aware of any such agreements,” Peskov said.
(c)UNIAN 2024
Biggest victory for Putin in years! Innocents exchanged for criminals! Uncle Joe agreed!
US citizens rescued from russian prisons. Thank you, President Biden!
Vladimir Kara-Murza is a gem of a guy. His close friendships with real patriots of russia, such as Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Gary Kasparov and the late great Boris Nemtsov assures that there remains still a democratic option for the shithole, should it grow tired of putinaZiism.
I hope he can get the most cutting edge western medicine available.
Btw, shortly after putler unleashed genocide in Ukraine he described the putler regime accurately as “a regime of murderers”.
That was a death sentence, which he has now escaped from.
Let’s watch what he does now.
After intense medical treatment of course.
I think it’s time the West issued a warning to all its citizens about going anywhere near these shithole countries. Travel at your own peril. If you get arrested, you are on your own.
Trump: I can make any deal with Putin…………… well, even Putin gave the deal to Biden.
Wall Street Journal reporters Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw, Bojan Pancevski, and Aruna Viswanatha noted that trumpkov got wind that a deal was coming together and began to insist at his rallies and in interviews that putler would free Gershkovich only for him.
putler has proven his puppet trumpkov wrong.
The timing and scale of the exchange raise questions. For me, like many things, it’s all about Ukraine.
What do you think? Would Putin want to repatriate “nobodies”, whom he consumes by the thousands every day on the front, against personalities who carry weight in the West? There are obviously other elements at play.
The Kremlin has no reason to accept this exchange, other than to achieve something substantial in the war in Ukraine. Otherwise the gain is zero, or even negative, for Moscow.
Allow me this cynicism: aid to Ukraine in slow motion and the limitations of Ukrainian actions on Russian Nazi soil at a price…
putler wanted his hit man, Vadim Krasikov, back from Germany.
The terrorist on the phone:
– He calls on the allies of the invaded countries to stop tactical military actions. Success!
– He calls to exchange a few “Western” prisoners for a few Russian pawns without interest but with a lot of other advantages. Success!
– He calls to ask to limit the actions of the countries they invade. Success!
– He calls to say he’s going to blow up the planet, every time a weapons wagon enters the country they’re invading. Slow-down, Success!
The Kremlin’s white analog landline telephones are ugly but very effective…