“Putin killed my husband.
Putin killed the father of my children.
» In a video published on her social networks this Monday, Yulia Navalnaïa accuses the Russian president of being at the origin of the death of Alexeï Navalny, which occurred three days earlier in a penal colony in Siberia in circumstances which still remain blurry.
During his imprisonment, Alexeï Navalny was “manhandled, cut off from the world” and “yet he did not give up”, she said.
“My husband could not be broken, and that is why Putin killed him,” said Yulia Navalnaya.
She promised to find out “who carried out this crime” and under what circumstances.
And then it came to Alex Navaly.
Продолжать бороться за нашу с вами страну.
It will be sent to you today.
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— Yulia Navalnaya (@yulia_navalnaya) February 19, 2024
“With him, (Putin) wanted to kill our hope, our freedom, our future,” asserted the opponent’s widow in her video.
She promises that she will continue her husband's "work" with determination and calls on her supporters to join her.
“I will continue for our country, with you.
And I call on you all to stand close to me (…) It is not a shame to do little, it is a shame to do nothing, it is a shame to let yourself be frightened,” he said. she declared.
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His notoriety had pushed some of Alexeï Navalny's supporters to dream of a political future for him, even before the opponent and anti-corruption activist was behind bars.
“We must unite to strike one blow at Putin, his friends, the thugs in shoulder pads, the courtiers and the killers who want to paralyze our country,” she said.
The day the death of Alexeï Navalny was announced, she spoke, with tears in her eyes, already asking that Vladimir Putin be “punished”.