The Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov was extradited from Germany. There he was convicted of killing a former Chechen militant in a park in Berlin in 2019.
On Friday, the Kremlin confirmed that Krasikov was working on behalf of the FSB. He worked in the FSB’s special forces, in the so-called Alpha group.
Krasikov was greeted with a hug from Russian President Vladimir Putin when he landed in Moscow on Thursday night, as part of a major prisoner exchange between the West and Russia, the largest since the Cold War.
The family of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, the Chechen militant, has expressed displeasure at Krasikov’s release. Krasikov served a life sentence before being released on Thursday.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov also confirmed that a Russian couple released in Slovenia were spies.
Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva had posed as an Argentinian couple who ran IT companies and an art gallery in Ljubljana.
The couple have two children who were also on the flight to Moscow on Thursday. Under the guise of being Argentine, however, the children did not speak Russian, and they did not even know they were Russian until Thursday.
When Putin greeted them at the airport, the children were greeted with “buenas noches”, which means good evening in Spanish.
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2024-08-03 15:28:02
