Spokesperson hints killer exchanged in prisoner swap was linked to Putin’s personal guard
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.
