Huge mistake.
👉Never negotiate with a terrorist, and much less: make deals with them!👈
Now, state terrorist and war criminal #Putin knows he just has to pick up some known Western citizens, have them convicted of a crime, and thrown in jail in exchange for his captured assasins and assets.
It's a really cheap "insurance policy."
Even worse: other rogue states' dictators have learned this lesson, too:
👉Western democracies can easily be blackmailed!👈