Russian dictator Putin promises 'state awards' to released Russian spies
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin promised to award state honors to spies and murderers returned to Russia as a result of a large-scale Russia-West prisoners exchange, TASS propaganda agency reported on Aug. 1.
According to the propagandists, Putin thanked them "for their loyalty to their oath" and said that "the homeland has not forgotten them."
In addition to state awards, Putin promised to meet them later, to "see each other and talk about the future", Siren Telegram channel added.
The FSB previously stated that eight Russians detained in a number of NATO countries returned to Russia.
Murderer Vadim Krasikov, who killed a Chechen field commander in Berlin in 2019, was among them.
The Insider earlier wrote the list of prisoners that Western countries agreed to extradite to Russia:
- Vadim Krasikov (from Germany)
- Artem Dultsev (from Slovenia)
- Anna Dultseva (from Slovenia)
- Mikhail Mikushin (from Norway)
- Pawel Rubtsov (from Poland)
- Roman Seleznev (from the United States)
- Vladyslav Kliushyn (from the United States)
- Vadym Konoshchenko (from the United States).
The exchange involved prisoners from the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus, Turkish TV channel NTV reported.
Ten hostages, including two children, went to Russia, 13 hostages to Germany, and three to the United States, the journalists said.
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