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Politico is reporting on a bombshell YouTube video released today by Alexei Navalny’s team that shows Navalny was killed on the eve of a prisoner swap. His close ally, Maria Pevchikh, said that a prisoner swap was imminent when Navalny was killed. Pevchikh blamed Vladimir Putin.
In the video, Pevchikh explains that there were months of lobbying for a prisoner swap that included Navalny. A plan was approved last spring. Two Americans were part of the deal.
“Navalny was supposed to be free in the coming days because we had achieved a decision on his exchange,” she said. Pevchikh added that Russian billionaire oligarch Roman Abramovich had acted as a personal liaison between Western officials and Putin in brokering the deal. POLITICO has not been able to independently verify Pevchikh’s claims.
Pevchikh said the deal included Vadim Krasikov, an FSB agent jailed in Germany for murdering a former Chechen commander in 2019, and “two American citizens.”
Pevchikh added she had received confirmation late on Feb.
