Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison in February, was supposed to be part of a prisoner exchange deal between the West and Russia.
Source: Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to US President Joe Biden, at a briefing on 1 August, European Pravda reports
Details: Sullivan said that the United States “had been working with our partners on a deal that would have included Alexei Navalny, and, unfortunately, he died.”
Navalny’s political associates had previously spoken about the deal to exchange him.
Background:
- On the afternoon of 16 February, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service reported the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at Correctional Facility No. 3 in Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in northwestern Siberia.
- The US intelligence services believe that Russian leader Vladimir Putin likely did not order the murder of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
- On Thursday, Turkey officially confirmed the exchange of 26 prisoners held in prisons in seven different countries: the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus.
- Among others, The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and US Marine Paul Whelan, German citizen Rico Krieger, who was imprisoned in Belarus, and Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin were released.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/1/7468517
Sullivan said that the United States “had been working with our partners on a deal that would have included Alexei Navalny, and, unfortunately, he died.”
Does Sullivan also believe in Father Christmas and the tooth fairy? This guy must be the most naive person I have ever seen. Putlers hatred of Navalny was so great, he would jeopardise any prisoner swap to see him dead.
I don’t know how a pathetic clown like Sullivan can manage to get such a position. That doesn’t make Biden look all that sharp.
He makes Biden look like Einstein. Maybe that’s why Biden picked him.
He was killed by Putin, the day for the exchange. By the way Harris will replace you, you got the memo?
Her own security advisor for years has been Phil Gordon. He’s as bad or worse than Sullivan. Both Gordon and Sullivan were originally hired by…Obama. Both worked on the deal to give cash to Iran and allow them to develop nukes.
Here’s what he said in 2018:
“Ukraine should not be encouraged to seek a military victory over Russia…”