Vladimir Putin guarantees that he approved the exchange of opponent Navalny days before his death in prison

The Russian President, Vladimir Putinassured this Sunday that of which his supporters directly accuse him.

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“Believe me or not. The man who spoke to me hadn’t finished his sentence and I already said: ‘I agree’. But unfortunately what happened happened” he claimed Putin, who spoke Navalny’s name for the first timeat a press conference after the victory in the presidential elections.

He explained that someone who does not belong to the presidential administration – Navalni’s allies mentioned tycoon Román Abramovich – He proposed exchanging his opponent for Russians imprisoned in European countries.

“But I accepted on one condition: we exchanged it, but we didn’t let it go back. let it stay there. But that’s life“, he said. Putin alluded to “Mr. Navalny” and described his death in a prison in the Arctic Circle as “a sad event.”

At the end of February, Collaborators of the late opposition leader accused Putin of ordering his murder days before his exchange for Chechen Vadim Krasikovwho murdered Georgian Zelimjan Jangoshvili in Berlin in August 2019, for which he was sentenced to life in prison by a German court.

“Navalny should have been released within a few days as we have made a decision on his exchange“, said María Pevchij, a close collaborator of Navalni, in a YouTube video. Opposition allies claim that it was Putin who decided to torpedo the stock market at the last momentwhich also included American citizens.

“On February 16, 2024, Vladimir Putin killed Alexei Navalny. He killed him in a vile and cowardly way in a distant Siberian prison, where Navalny was kept away from the rest of the world.They took him away from his family and loved ones, starved him, and tortured him.”, he stated.

The beginning of the war in Ukraine two years ago He convinced opposition collaborators that they should get him out of prison “at any price”.

Krasikov’s name was mentioned several times by the American press in the possible exchange of Russian citizens. by Americans like Paul Whelan, who was sentenced in Russia to 16 years for espionage.

Furthermore, during the recent interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson, Putin alluded to a Russian “patriot”, in clear reference to Krasikov, as a possible exchange object for The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich. Tens of thousands of Russians attended Navalny’s funeral in Moscow, in the biggest protest against the Kremlin’s repression and the war in Ukraine.

Source: Elcomercio

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