The Russian Presidency confirmed today that Vadim Krassikov, released by Germany on Thursday after being sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a former Chechen separatist commander in Berlin, is an FSB agent.
"Krassikov is a member of the FSB (Federal Security Service). He served in Alfa (the FSB's elite unit). He served with a number of officials from President Vladimir Putin's security service," Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov told journalists.
The Kremlin also added that the children of the couple of alleged Russian spies Artiom Doultsev and Anna Doultseva, released on Thursday by Slovenia as part of the same prisoner exchange with Russia, did not know that they were Russian.
"The children of the illegal immigrants who boarded the plane yesterday (Thursday) only found out that they were Russian when the plane took off from Ankara. They don't speak Russian," Dmitri Peskov told journalists.
The Russian Federation and several Western states exchanged 26 prisoners in an operation coordinated by Turkey.
According to the Turkish authorities, 10 prisoners, including two minors, were transferred to Russia, 13 to Germany and three to the United States.
They include journalists, veteran political activists and simple opponents of the war in Ukraine.
The youngest is 19 and the oldest is 71.
This is the largest exchange of civilian prisoners between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.
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