Russia has never offered the United States to exchange opposition leader Alexei Navalny for detained foreign citizens. This was stated by US President Joe Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at a briefing. 

According to him, the American side has been negotiating with Russian officials on the exchange of Americans "for many months and years".

"In none of these conversations have we heard a Russian official mention Navalny as part of a prisoner exchange," Sullivan said.

He noted that if Moscow did have a plan to release Navalny to the West, the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin was late in implementing it. 

"If they were interested in this, it seems like they came to it quite late - actually too late, obviously, because he's no longer alive. We hadn't heard that from them before," the US presidential adviser added.

As a reminder, on March 17, Putin commented for the first time on Navalny's death in the colony, saying that he had received an offer to exchange the politician and agreed to it on the condition that he would not return to Russia.