How the US fell into the hostage trap
Around midday in late summer 2019, a Russian national named Vadim Krasikov shot a Chechen former platoon commander once in the shoulder and twice in the head in a public park in Berlin. Krasikov, it turned out, was no ordinary killer. A colonel in the Russian security services and former bodyguard of Vladimir Putin, he had entered Germany under a false identity and executed the hit on behalf of the Russian state. Caught later the same day, Krasikov was ultimately convicted of murder by a German court and sentenced to life in prison in 2021. Krasikov was strangely complacent about his fate.
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