Angela Bachevskaya00:50, 02.08.24
It is noted that the Kremlin dictator attaches great importance to everything that is known about his past.
On August 1, Russia and a number of Western countries conducted a prisoner exchange , during which Putin’s killer and former FSB officer Vadim Krasikov was released. Western intelligence agencies believe that he and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had close ties in the past.
Bild writes about this . It is noted that Krasikov could have participated in the murder of Anatoly Sobchak. In addition, the killer may have “knowledge dangerous to the Kremlin.”
“The Russian dictator may have feared that Krasikov would reveal important information if he remained in a German prison – either out of revenge against the Russian regime, which was not doing everything to free him, or to make a deal with the German authorities. There is a suspicion that Krasikov could have played a role in Putin’s rise to power. In the 1990s, he is believed to have worked for Anatoly Sobchak and his deputy and took measures against their political opponents. However, in February 2000, a few weeks after Putin took office, Sobchak died suddenly,” the article says.
According to official data, the cause of Sobchak’s death was a heart attack. However, relatives assumed that Sobchak was murdered.
“Does Krasikov have anything to do with the alleged murder of Putin’s political mentor? And does the trail lead to Putin himself? Western intelligence suspects exactly this and assumes that this is why Putin fought so persistently for Krasikov’s release,” explains Bild.
It is noted that the Kremlin dictator attaches great importance to everything that is known about his past.
“If the intelligence services’ suspicions of his involvement in Sobchak’s murder are true, this will cast doubt on Putin’s favorite character trait – loyalty, which he supposedly values so highly,” the journalists conclude.
Prisoner exchange between Russia and the West
On August 1, 2024, a large-scale prisoner exchange took place in Turkey between Russia and a number of Western countries (the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, and Norway). A total of 26 people were exchanged. Russia returned, in particular, the killer Krasikov and the spies Anna and Artem Dultsev.
In exchange for them, Russia released political prisoners (including Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kara-Murza), Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, and Radio Liberty Tatar-Bashkir Service journalist Alsa Kurmanasheva. In addition, former Marine Paul Whelan and German citizen Patrick Schebel were exchanged.
(C)UNIAN 2024
The lowest scum was exchanged………….why? Just read.
Exactly. As l was trying to say, earlier too, America forced this upon the German’s to release this scum
He should not have been “exchanged.” He should have been kept and rung dry.
“Does Krasikov have anything to do with the alleged murder of Putin’s political mentor? And does the trail lead to Putin himself? Western intelligence suspects exactly this and assumes that this is why Putin fought so persistently for Krasikov’s release,” explains Bild.
This sentimentalism that we want to confer on Putin is absolutely ridiculous. If this subhuman is ready to perpetrate a genocide in broad daylight or to eliminate political opponents and even relatives regularly, do you think he is worried about alcove secrets that no one cares about? Be serious!
My feeling is that things other than prisoners are in the balance of this exchange. It’s all about Ukraine.