Posted on 08/01/2024 10:51:45 AM PDT by McGruff
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Krasikov's name came up about two years ago, when a U.S. official told CBS News that Moscow had sought a deal to swap him for Whelan, the U.S. Marine veteran who was at the time the highest-profile American imprisoned in Russia. Negotiations on that swap in the summer of 2022 fell apart without an agreement. CBS News correspondent Weijia Jiang said Moscow had sought "a spy for a spy" swap, Whelan for Krasikov, but that Berlin had rejected the proposal.
It wasn't immediately clear what changed the Germans' calculus to make the swap expected on Thursday possible, but Belarus' state-run BeITA news agency said President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia's Putin, had decided to pardon a German man who was sentenced to death in the country on terrorism and other charges.
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In an interview aired by Belarusian state TV last week, Krieger – speaking as a prisoner and possibly under duress - said Ukraine's SBU intelligence service had told him to photograph military sites in Belarus in October and to try to detonate explosives on a train line in the country. There was an explosion on a rail line southwest of Belarus' capital Minsk, but nobody was hurt.
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REPORTER: “President Trump has said repeatedly that he could’ve gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange...”
BIDEN: “Why didn’t he do it when he was president?”
(Two of the three Americans were wrongfully detained during Biden’s presidency)
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How much is Germany getting from the U.S. to agree to this deal?
Is it any wonder why Russia imprisons Western journalists?
They know we’re willing to exchange captured spies and Russian intelligence assets for their return.
Big L for America.
Yup, and once freed they may go back to Russia to become hostage bait again.
Vadim Krasikov, Russian assassin was all smiles today as he left for his beloved homeland where he was greeted by a conscription notice.
How much is Germany getting from the U.S. to agree to this deal?“
This is foreign powers colluding to help the rats. They do not want Trump, they know they cannot roll him.
I knew they were going to spring him.
On August 23, 2019, Krasikov rode up on a bicycle from behind Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, who participated in the second Chechen war as a field commander, and shot him with three shots to the head.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili is the one who tortured and killed captured soldiers in Chechnya.
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