Vadim Krasikov

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Vadim Krasikov
Krasikov in 2024
Birth name	Vadim Nikolayevich Krasikov
Born	(1965-08-10) 10 August 1965 (age 59) Kenestobe [ru], Baydibek District, Chimkent Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union[1]
Rank	Colonel

Vadim Nikolayevich Krasikov (Russian: Вади́м Никола́евич Кра́сиков [vɐˈdʲim nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkrasʲɪkəf]; born 10 August 1965) is a Russian security service hitman who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for the killing of 40-year-old Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, Germany, on August 23, 2019.^[2] On August 1, 2024, he returned to Russia after a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West.^[3][4][5] One of the prisoners involved in the exchange for Krasikov, Ilya Yashin, would condemn the fact that he was specifically freed in exchange for him due to Krasikov originally being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Khangoshvili.^[6][7]