They should have never swapped a killer imo. I guess they tried to save the guy in Belarus they ordered to kill, but accepting to that kind of extortion creates a bad precedent. Can something please be done with Russia killing people left and right in Europe? Why are Russians still allowed to travel to Europe?
Yeah, and West has freed him…
Defending own people is a good thing, but **defending**, not falling for ruzia blackmails time after time again. They pretty much set precedent with basketball girl – US bent over then, so yoo-hoo ruzia keep repeating by kidnapping more people.
When Israelis were killed and kidnapped – Israel went to war. And US and EU frees ruzian criminals. Good job, as always.
What headlines tell
>Kremlin admits Vadim Krasikov is a Russian state assassin
What Kremlin spokesperson said:
>Krasikov is an FSB employee
So every person in Russia that has a right to kill under some circumstances, be it a member of FSB, the police, the army, national guard is a state assassin according to The Guardian. Got it.
Isn’t it fucked up that Russia is basically taking hostages at the national scale to later exchange them for state assassins and terrorists
Yeah, need 5 years to admit something everybody knew for 5 years… soooo typical soviet shit.
Hope Germany sneaked in an Apple AirTag in Krasikov’s underpants.
A terrorist state gets back its prized assassin. What a glorious day for the ghouls.
>The Kremlin has admitted that Vadim Krasikov, the assassin freed by Germany in a historic prisoner swap on Thursday, is a serving officer of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), essentially an acknowledgment that his 2019 murder of a Chechen exile in Berlin was a state-ordered hit.
>It also hinted that he was linked to Vladimir Putin’s personal guard.
>“Krasikov is an FSB employee,” Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters, adding that he had “served with some of the people working in the president’s security detail”.
>Krasikov was one of eight Russians released from jails in the west and returned to Moscow on Thursday as part of a complex exchange deal in which 16 people were freed from Russian custody, including the US reporter Evan Gershkovich and several Russian opposition politicians.
>Those involved in the negotiations have said that for Putin, Krasikov had always been the most important part of the puzzle, with the Kremlin insisting he would have to be part of any exchange. Putin was described as “maniacal” about returning Krasikov from Germany by one source in Moscow with knowledge of the negotiations – and Friday’s admission goes some way to explaining why.
>It is the first time the Kremlin has admitted one of its serving operatives is behind a murder on foreign soil. Previously, Moscow have always denied involvement in cases such as the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London, the 2018 attempted murder of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, or numerous hits on Chechen exiles in Istanbul, however implausible.
>When Krasikov killed the Chechen exile Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in 2019, the Kremlin denied all responsibility. “I categorically reject any link between this incident, this murder and official Russia,” Peskov said at the time. However, in an interview earlier this year, Putin referred to Krasikov as a “patriot” who had “liquidated a bandit”.
>Krasikov and the other seven returnees to Russia – a mix of spies and those serving time on criminal charges – were given a hero’s welcome in Moscow after the exchange in Ankara, with a red carpet, a guard of honour and Putin arriving in person to offer embraces and bouquets of flowers as they stepped off the plane.
>Peskov confirmed that Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, who had been posing as an Argentine couple in Slovenia, were in fact Russian “illegals” – deep-cover spies who can spend decades abroad pretending to be foreigners. The couple’s two children, who had been taken into foster care when their parents were arrested in late 2022, travelled to Russia with them.
>“The children of the illegals who arrived yesterday only found out they were Russian on the plane from Ankara. They do not speak Russian,” Peskov said. Putin greeted them in Spanish with the words “buenas noches” when they disembarked the plane.
Just watching Ilya Yashin on TV. Didn’t want to leave Russia. What bravery.
This will incentivise Putin to arrest more.
Of course, they’re all Russian assassins, spies, fraudsters. There are no Russisn journalists and local dissidents to be exchanged from Western prisons.
The takeaway if you’re a westerner, but especially a journalist, a senior executive in a large company or anyone else with a higher profile: don’t travel to authoritarian countries like Russia, Belarus or China because you risk being arrested without cause and then used as a bargaining chip in swaps that release actual murderers and spies.
The same Dimitri Pestov was saying until yesterday that Krasikov wasn’t an FSB cancer sent to kill people.
Goes to show you that no Kremlinite cunt can ever be trusted.
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They should have never swapped a killer imo. I guess they tried to save the guy in Belarus they ordered to kill, but accepting to that kind of extortion creates a bad precedent. Can something please be done with Russia killing people left and right in Europe? Why are Russians still allowed to travel to Europe?
Yeah, and West has freed him…
Defending own people is a good thing, but **defending**, not falling for ruzia blackmails time after time again. They pretty much set precedent with basketball girl – US bent over then, so yoo-hoo ruzia keep repeating by kidnapping more people.
When Israelis were killed and kidnapped – Israel went to war. And US and EU frees ruzian criminals. Good job, as always.
What headlines tell
>Kremlin admits Vadim Krasikov is a Russian state assassin
What Kremlin spokesperson said:
>Krasikov is an FSB employee
So every person in Russia that has a right to kill under some circumstances, be it a member of FSB, the police, the army, national guard is a state assassin according to The Guardian. Got it.
Isn’t it fucked up that Russia is basically taking hostages at the national scale to later exchange them for state assassins and terrorists
Yeah, need 5 years to admit something everybody knew for 5 years… soooo typical soviet shit.
Hope Germany sneaked in an Apple AirTag in Krasikov’s underpants.
A terrorist state gets back its prized assassin. What a glorious day for the ghouls.
>The Kremlin has admitted that Vadim Krasikov, the assassin freed by Germany in a historic prisoner swap on Thursday, is a serving officer of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), essentially an acknowledgment that his 2019 murder of a Chechen exile in Berlin was a state-ordered hit.
>It also hinted that he was linked to Vladimir Putin’s personal guard.
>“Krasikov is an FSB employee,” Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters, adding that he had “served with some of the people working in the president’s security detail”.
>Krasikov was one of eight Russians released from jails in the west and returned to Moscow on Thursday as part of a complex exchange deal in which 16 people were freed from Russian custody, including the US reporter Evan Gershkovich and several Russian opposition politicians.
>Those involved in the negotiations have said that for Putin, Krasikov had always been the most important part of the puzzle, with the Kremlin insisting he would have to be part of any exchange. Putin was described as “maniacal” about returning Krasikov from Germany by one source in Moscow with knowledge of the negotiations – and Friday’s admission goes some way to explaining why.
>It is the first time the Kremlin has admitted one of its serving operatives is behind a murder on foreign soil. Previously, Moscow have always denied involvement in cases such as the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London, the 2018 attempted murder of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, or numerous hits on Chechen exiles in Istanbul, however implausible.
>When Krasikov killed the Chechen exile Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in 2019, the Kremlin denied all responsibility. “I categorically reject any link between this incident, this murder and official Russia,” Peskov said at the time. However, in an interview earlier this year, Putin referred to Krasikov as a “patriot” who had “liquidated a bandit”.
>Krasikov and the other seven returnees to Russia – a mix of spies and those serving time on criminal charges – were given a hero’s welcome in Moscow after the exchange in Ankara, with a red carpet, a guard of honour and Putin arriving in person to offer embraces and bouquets of flowers as they stepped off the plane.
>Peskov confirmed that Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, who had been posing as an Argentine couple in Slovenia, were in fact Russian “illegals” – deep-cover spies who can spend decades abroad pretending to be foreigners. The couple’s two children, who had been taken into foster care when their parents were arrested in late 2022, travelled to Russia with them.
>“The children of the illegals who arrived yesterday only found out they were Russian on the plane from Ankara. They do not speak Russian,” Peskov said. Putin greeted them in Spanish with the words “buenas noches” when they disembarked the plane.
Just watching Ilya Yashin on TV. Didn’t want to leave Russia. What bravery.
This will incentivise Putin to arrest more.
Of course, they’re all Russian assassins, spies, fraudsters. There are no Russisn journalists and local dissidents to be exchanged from Western prisons.
The takeaway if you’re a westerner, but especially a journalist, a senior executive in a large company or anyone else with a higher profile: don’t travel to authoritarian countries like Russia, Belarus or China because you risk being arrested without cause and then used as a bargaining chip in swaps that release actual murderers and spies.
The same Dimitri Pestov was saying until yesterday that Krasikov wasn’t an FSB cancer sent to kill people.
Goes to show you that no Kremlinite cunt can ever be trusted.