Russian Vadim Krasikov, convicted in Germany of murder and part of Thursday’s large-scale prisoner exchange between the West and Russia, was a member of Russia’s FSB secret service. This was reported by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday, according to whom Krasikov served in the elite Alpha unit.
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Russian Vadim Krasikov convicted in Germany of murder, who was part of Thursday’s large-scale prisoner exchange between the West and Russia, was a member of the Russian FSB secret service | Source: Profimedia
The spokesman also said at his regular press conference, where journalists asked in particular about the circumstances of the exchange, that the negotiations regarding the exchange of prisoners had nothing to do with the talks on settling the conflict in Ukraine. This was reported by the TASS agency.
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Krasikov “served in Alfa, served together with some members of the bodyguard” of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Peskov said. He added that Krasikov was therefore warmly welcomed by security personnel on Thursday.
There was speculation in the media about Krasikov’s affiliation with the FSB. The German court was also convinced of it, which sent him to prison for life in 2021, but Russia has not officially confirmed it until now.
Krasikov was serving a life sentence in a German prison for the murder of Zelimkhan Changoshvili, a Chechen citizen with Georgian citizenship, an opponent of the Russian regime, in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten park in 2019. A German court described the crime as “state-ordered murder.”
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Thursday’s largest exchange of prisoners since the end of the Cold War took place in Turkey, from where ten people – eight adults and two children – went to Russia. 16 released went to the United States and Germany. According to Western media, a number of state authorities and negotiators participated in the extensive agreement.
But the Kremlin denied on Friday that the cooperation could be transferred to the field of peace talks regarding the war in Ukraine. Russia unleashed this by invading a neighboring country in 2022.
“These are different areas of work and completely different situations,” Peskov said. “If we are talking about Ukraine and more complex international problems, then it is a completely different matter. Completely different principles apply there… Work there takes place in a slightly different regime and according to different principles,” added the spokesperson.
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