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“[Vadims] Krasikov is from the FSB, he served in “Alfa” together with several members of the presidential guard. So it is natural that he and Putin greeted each other yesterday. Dulcevi are scouts. Their children only found out yesterday that they are Russian. They don’t even speak Russian and didn’t know who Putin is. Yesterday, they asked their parents who it was who met them. This is how illegals work, who sacrifice so much for their work,” said Peskov.
Krasikov was sentenced in Germany to life imprisonment for the killing of the former Chechen rebel commander Zelimkhan Hangoshvili in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park on August 23, 2019.
On Wednesday, a Slovenian court sentenced the Dulcev couple to more than a year and a half in prison for spying for Moscow, then ordered them deported.
Artjoms and Anna Dulcevi pleaded guilty to accusations of “espionage and falsification of documents” at Wednesday’s court hearing.
The couple, both in their 40s and holding Argentine passports, were detained in early December 2022 on suspicion of spying for Russia, local media reported.
They used a company and an art gallery in Ljubljana as a cover, and also used fake identities and posed as Argentines Ludvig Gisch and Maria Rosa Meyer Munoz.
It has already been reported that an exchange of 26 prisoners between Western countries and Russia took place on Thursday in Ankara, the capital of Turkey.
Prisoners from the USA, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Belarus and Russia were exchanged at the Ankara airport. After the exchange, ten people went to Russia, 13 to Germany, and three to the USA.
“The Insider”, referring to its sources, published a list of people released by Russia and Belarus, among them Gershkovich, Wilan, Kurmasheva, German citizen Rico Krueger, who was previously sentenced to death in Belarus and pardoned, German citizens Patrick Shebelis and Dieter Voronin, opposition activists Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin, former coordinators of Navalny’s headquarters Liliya Chanysheva, Ksenia Fadeyeva and Vadim Ostanin, as well as Andrey Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Sasha Skochilenko, Kevin Lick and Herman Moiges.
Russian “Telegram” channel “Mash” reported that Artjoms and Anna Dulcevi, collaborators of the Russian foreign intelligence service SVR, who were previously exposed in Slovenia, were handed over to the Russian side. Alexander Vinnik, Maksim Marchenko, Vadim Konoshchenko, Vladislav Klyushin, Vladimir Dunayev and Roman Seleznov, who were arrested for cybercrimes, have also been handed over to Russia, as well as Vadim Krasikov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany and was convicted of killing a former Chechen rebel commander in a Berlin park.
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