As of: February 21, 2024, 1:23 p.m
By: Felix Durach
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Russian resistance fighters were probably planning to free Alexei Navalny from captivity.
The Kremlin critic should be brought to Ukraine.
Moscow – Alexei Navalny, one of the most famous opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in a prison camp in Siberia last Friday.
The Russian opposition lost its figurehead.
But apparently it almost didn't get that far.
The “Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK), an ultranationalist resistance group, had apparently drawn up plans to free Navalny from captivity and bring him to Ukraine.
Plans revealed: Resistance fighters wanted to free Navalny from Putin's torture prison
Under the heading “Operation December,” the RDK published a blog post on Tuesday (February 20) sharing the plans for the operation.
The core message: The resistance group had planned to attack Navalny's prisoner transport and thus snatch the Kremlin critic from the clutches of the Russian regime.
Navalny was transferred to penal camp IK-6 in the penal colony No. 3 “Polar Wolf” in Siberia on December 11th.
The RDK then planned to take Navalny to the Russian-Ukrainian border area and finally bring him across the border to safety.
Ultranationalist Russian resistance fighters had made plans to free Alexei Navalny from captivity.
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However, the plan failed.
Especially because the Russian Prison Service (FSIN) and the Domestic Security Service (FSB) had made appropriate preparations.
“Unfortunately, the security measures taken by the FSIN and the FSB to prevent such scenarios turned out to be quite effective,” the RDK wrote in the post.
The date of Navalny's transfer was postponed several times and finally ordered without any preparation through a verbal instruction.
The RDK forces would therefore not have had enough time to reach the operational area.
Various photos were also published as part of the article, which are said to have come from surveillance cameras at the IK-6 prison camp and show the imprisoned Navalny.
In addition, the authors also published various other documents.
Among other things, a map of the IK-6 penal camp and a handwritten note that is said to be an exchange between Navalny and a fellow prisoner.
Plan to free Navalny failed – “Unfortunately we didn’t have time”
“Unfortunately, we did not have time to rescue Alexei, but hundreds of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience remain in captivity,” it says at the end of the article.
The information is also being made available to the public in the hope that it will “help other organizations that are fighting against the criminal regime of the Kremlin.” Whether the authors are actually the Russian Freedom Corps cannot be independently verified.
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The RDK was founded in August 2022 by Russian right-wing extremist Denis Nikitin and is fighting on Kiev's side in the Ukraine War.
One goal of the RDK is the fragmentation of the Russian Federation and the creation of a new state for ethnic Russians.
The Reuters
news agency reported this
last year.
According to authorities, Navalny collapsed on February 16 while walking in the prison camp north of the Arctic Circle.
Attempts to resuscitate the prison officers were in vain, it is said.
Navalny was only 47 at the time of death, but was weakened by a poison attack in 2020 and repeated solitary confinement in the camp.
Reports on Navalny’s prison conditions – “murder in installments”
Nobel Peace Prize winner Irina Scherbakova underlined the horror from which the RDK wanted to free Navalny on Tuesday evening (February 20) on the
ARD
talk show Maischberger.
“It was torture.
This can only be compared to the worst Stalinist methods.
In three years he was in the penal barracks for almost 300 days,” said Scherbakova.
It is said to have been a narrow cell with only a small window.
From 5 a.m. the bed was also folded up so that Navalny could only sit on a stool.
“And you’re starving.
Because what they call food there, Navalny always made fun of.
“It’s torture with hunger,” Scherbakova continued.
Thomas Roth, the former head of the
ARD
studio in Moscow, agreed with the Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner.
“The martyrdom he had to endure had lasted for years,” said Roth.
Roth also blamed the Russian president for the death of the Kremlin critic.
“It was murder in installments, pushing this martyrdom on until it eventually breaks away.
At some point it broke away.
Putin wanted him gone.”
“Putin’s reward for torture”: promotions in the prison authority after Navalny’s death
Another report from Tuesday (February 21) would also fit into this picture.
Ivan Zhdanov, the director of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) founded by Navalny, announced on his Telegram channel that the deputy head of the FSIN prison authority - Valery Boyarinev - had been promoted to colonel general in the Interior Ministry shortly after Navalny's death.
Boyarinew was personally responsible for the torture of Navalny.
“This must be understood as Putin’s open reward for the torture,” Zhdanov wrote.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov publicly denied any connection between the promotion and Navalny's death.
It is a normal process.
Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and his mother Lyudmila Navalnaya are currently continuing to fight for the body to be returned.
The authorities are denying relatives access to Navalny's body, despite international protests.
His team, which accuses the Russian power apparatus of murder, sees this as an attempted cover-up.
Navalny's mother personally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin in a video on Tuesday to see and bury her son as quickly as possible.
So far there has been no reaction from the Kremlin.
(fd with material from dpa)