Russia, the United States and other countries participated Thursday in a historic exchange of 24 prisoners, the largest since the Cold War era. This includes the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkowitz, ex-Marine Paul Whelan and Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza. The prisoner exchange deal was brokered by Turkey, which said in a statement that 10 prisoners, including two minors, were transferred to Russia, 13 to Germany and three to the United States. CNN publishes the names of all those released. Russians freed Vadim Krashikov Krashikov, a former high-ranking official of the Russian intelligence service (FSB), serving a life sentence in a German prison, was at the top of Moscow’s list of Russian prisoners it wanted to exchange. He was convicted of the 2019 murder of Chechen ex-combatant Zelimkhan Sultanovich Khangoshvili (“Tornike” Khangoshvili) in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten. Wanted in Russia with […]
Source: News Beast
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