According to an adviser, Putin opposed a swap that would have involved the release of a Russian agent from prison in Germany.
The Russian opponent Alexei Navalny He was “days” away from being released by virtue of a principle of agreement that, according to the deceased politician’s entourage, was already in the “final phase” but he ran into him frontal rejection of President Vladimir Putinwho thus renounced who should have been a bargaining chip to recover agent Vadim Krasikov, detained in Germany.
An ally of Navalny, Maria Pevchij, has assured on the opposition’s YouTube channel that all that was left was Putin’s approval to close an exchange that had been in the works for two years. He has explained that since the offensive in Ukraine began, the goal was to get Navalny out of prison, fearing that his situation would worsen.
Finally, he ended up in a remote Arctic prison, “hidden from the world” and subjected to “torture,” denounced Pevchij, who has shared a story with which he calls to understand not only why “Putin killed Navalni”, but also the reasons that led to his death on February 16.
“Navalny was supposed to be released in the coming days because we had made a decision about his exchange,” he said, explaining that at the beginning of the month an offer was presented to Putin and that on the afternoon of February 15 everything was already in “a final phase.”
Then, the Russian president would have been told that “the only way” to get Krasikov to return to Russia would be to hand over Navalni, so according to Pevchij he chose to make the person who should be a bargaining chip disappear.
Germany does not speak out
The German Government has avoided speaking out at first about the supposed exchange that was on the table. “At this time, I cannot comment on this,” declared a spokeswoman for the Executive, Christiane Hoffmannafter the publication of the video.
However, the chancellor, Olaf Scholzhas returned this Monday to blame Putin for Navalny’s death.
The head of the German Executive has stated that both the Russian president and his allies “are very afraid”, as was evident with the cancellation of rival candidacies for the March presidential electionsin which Putin appears as a clear favorite.
Source: Eitb
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