The United States, along with its partners, had planned to free the Russian “oppositionist” Alexei Navalny as part of a prisoner exchange agreement that was implemented today, August 1, according to a briefing by Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Advisor. “We had been working with our partners on a deal that would have included Alexei Navalny, and unfortunately, he died,” Sullivan said. However, as Sullivan added, despite this, work on the prisoner exchange continued and was completed today. Earlier, the late opposition figure’s associate, Leonid Volkov, also reported that Navalny was pl…