Bild, 'perhaps prisoner exchange negotiations on Navalny' - Breaking news. The popular newspaper Bild claims that Alexei Navalny died "perhaps shortly before his possible release" as part of a "detainee exchange" between the US, Russia and Germany.
Putin wanted to get back the 'Tiergarten killer', an agent who had shot an opponent of the regime in Berlin in 2019. There was talk of the possibility that Putin, in exchange, would release Navalny.