Navalny Exchange Deal Was Reached One Day Before His Murder

They wanted to exchange the Russian oppositionist for an FSB SF officer.

An associate of the murdered Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, Maria Pevchikh, released a video in which she spoke about the preparation for an exchange of Navalny for an FSB special forces officer Vadim Krasikov, convicted of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Germany.

"Navalny was to be released in the coming days," they say in the video published on his channel.

On the evening of February 15, according to Pevchikh, she received confirmation that negotiations on the exchange of Krasikov for Alexei Navalny and two US citizens are underway and "are at the final stage." One of the intermediaries was the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

According to Pevchikh, Putin did not want to see Navalny free and got rid of the "subject of bargaining" to exchange Krasikov for someone else.