Kremlin confirms secret agent part of historic prisoner swap
Update: 2024-08-022
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The Kremlin confirms convicted assassin Vadim Krasikov, released in a huge east-west prisoner swap, was a Russian security agent.
The historic exchange freed 24 prisoners from seven countries - three of whom have now returned to the US.
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