Why Germany was key to prisoner swap deal with Russia | DW News
The German government played a key role in Thursday’s prisoner swap between Russia and the West, in which Moscow released 16 prisoners in exchange for eight Russians held in the West.
The main figure in the swap, which involved several countries, was Vadim Krasikov, a Russian convicted of killing a former Chechen militant in Berlin in 2019.
Russia had approached the United States as early as 2022 with an offer to release US prisoners in exchange for Krasikov, who was serving a life sentence in Germany. However, because Krasikov was not an American prisoner, US officials did not think the offer was serious.
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42 comments
The name of our guest in the Studio is Hans-Jakob Schindler. We apologize for the spelling mistake.
Karamurza is free! ❤
Why all the focus on Gershkovich? Why does no one mention Kara-Murza?
What a silly analysis of the whole thing 😂 Thinker, taylor, spy ❤🎉
A Russian and a German talk in a Berlin park.
Ivan says: Hans, we are friends, but I must tell you,
my grandfather died in a concentration camp.
Hans: Really? Mine too !
Ivan: How come, what happened?
Hans: He fell from the watchtower.
Wonder how this guys victims family feels about the release!
Netanyahu got many hugs and kisses when he travelled to the US with politicians clapping for a genocide war crimes criminal.
So Germany had no choice; US wanted its citizens back so as putin.
Birds of a feather flock together
Murderer and a murderer anyway people gone his old
Dw 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
They applauded natenyahu 60 to.ew and no one said a word, we see you
Putin hugged him, because he was his personal hit man 🤔🇨🇦
They made us believe Putin is a bad guy
A gangster meets gangster.
Gangster arrive home to Mordor.
yayyy, Yuri is back… nice jacket lol
Putin is a murderer also makes sense
Just like US leaders embraced returned convicted spies and criminals ….
Gollum meets his boyfriend
This is a great disgrace to Germany to release a killer and a assassin,and sets a precedent for future kidnappings of western citizens.
Where are the Russian Bots and puppets. If you live in the west and see Putin as a hero, you should move there. LONG LIVE THE WEST
Biden embraced his own too.
I guess Biden identified the person whom he was receiving 😂😂😂
Putin said he wanted to release Navalny on a prisoner exchange, now you are telling us that he didn't want to release him, so who should we believe?
The amount of cheer for "Russian patriots" like Kara Murza and other opposition just shows who's assets the were.
So Germany and the United States quietly negotiated what they see as a bad deal to save a few lives but are pushing zelensky to fight to the last man.
Wheres rhe report about France embracing a gen0cid@l country and Germany doing the same?
A convicted murderer killed a Chechen terrorist when he came back from the mosque. Russia requested extradition of him. Germany preferred him in Geemamy
Putler is short of convicts, so he would see this as a good deal.
nafo bots keep whining and crying 🥰
Thats not Putin, its a double. Look at the ears. Ears don't lie, they are like a fingerprint. Putins ears are more rounded at the top, wider and have a less connecting lobe.
Only time the food was better in prison.
Gracias por la información tan detallada.
Today our country needs other countries to help……please save the Bangladeshi student 🇧🇩🇧🇩
Convicted prisoner can be released …where is the rule of law
Russian was convicted
Others are accused
Hahaha
He killed is true but who was killed did you check your information. The man who killed so many civilians, bombed Metro, school so many children civilians, soldier's was killed brutal. So before you say something check your information. Why don't you tell the truth let the world know
America is the was county not Russia. How many countries you distro y. How many people you killed,?
Germany dont decide nothing. It was exchanges of agents of big boys
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Thank you Germany. You have offered hope to very many families.