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CNN, citing sources, reported that Russia allegedly asked the United States to include another Russian on the exchange list.
The channel’s message says that, in addition to Viktor Bout, Moscow wants to exchange Vadim Krasikov, who was sentenced to life on charges of murdering Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a former field commander during the Chechen War, in Berlin in 2019. German investigators claimed that Krasikov allegedly received a task to kill a former militant from the state departments of the Russian Federation.
According to CNN, Washington considered Moscow’s request for Krasikov’s exchange “problematic”, including because he remains in custody in Germany.