The Russian president, Vladimir Putin assured this Sunday that he approved the exchange of the opposition leader, Alexei Navalni, days before he died suddenly in an Arctic prison, a death he described as a “sad event.”
Putin, winner of the presidential elections for the sixth time, held a press conference to address the media where He pronounced Navalni’s name for the first time. And she did it to confirm that he had given the green light to the exchange of him for another prisoner.
“I said: I agree. But unfortunately what happened happened“Putin stated.
In principle, and as reported by the Russian opposition leader’s team, lThe exchange proposal consisted of the exchange of Alexei Navalny, along with two American citizens, for the Chechen Vadim Krasikovconvicted in Germany for the murder of a Georgian citizen.
They say this proposal was made at the beginning of February, an exchange that Putin now confirms that he approved before Navalni’s death on February 16.
Source: Lasexta
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