Widow Navalny: “We know why Putin killed Alexei. We will tell you more about it soon” | Alexei Navalny passes away

Navalny’s wife is convinced that “Putin killed her husband.” “The authorities are waiting to release his body until there are traces of novichok (the poison with which he was previously poisoned, ed.) have disappeared,” she says. “With him, Putin wanted to kill our hope, our freedom, our future,” says Navalnaya, who is present today at the meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels.

According to Navalnaya, it is no coincidence that Putin killed her husband three days ago. “We know why he was killed. We will tell you more about it soon. We will find out who carried out this crime. We will name names and show faces.”

Navalnaya is determined to continue her husband’s work. “I want to live in a free Russia, I want to build a free Russia. I will continue Alexey’s fight,” she says. She calls on Putin’s opponents to continue to resist.

Navalny (47) died on Friday in a prison camp in northern Russia. He served a prison sentence of more than thirty years there for founding an ‘extremist group’. His cause of death has not yet been determined. It is also not clear at this time where Navalny’s body is. The prison authority said his body was taken to Salekhard. However, according to Navalny’s spokesman, he is not present at the only morgue in the northern Russian town.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that the investigation into Navalny’s death was still ongoing. Several countries have accused the Russian regime of being responsible for Navalny’s death. “In such circumstances, in the absence of information, we believe that it is absolutely not permissible to make such odious statements,” Peskov responded.

The Kremlin also has no information about when Navalny’s body will be handed over to his family after completion of the necessary procedures, Peskov said.

The European Union wants Russia to allow an international investigation into the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This is stated in a statement that the High Representative of European Foreign Policy Josep Borrell published on Monday after a meeting with foreign ministers in Brussels.

“Russia must allow an independent and transparent investigation into the circumstances of his sudden death. The EU will make every effort to hold Russia’s political leadership and authorities accountable,” reads the statement issued by Borrell on behalf of the EU.

The EU is also considering additional sanctions against Russia following Navalny’s death. “We will try to identify who is directly responsible. That is not easy, because we depend on information from Russia and they do not want to provide it. Even the family does not have access to his body,” Borrell noted at a press conference after the meeting.

Regardless, the statement said “ultimate responsibility” for Navalny’s death lies with “President Putin and the Russian authorities.” The opponent was “slowly murdered by Putin’s regime,” Borrell said. The foreign ministers received his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, on Monday. To pay tribute to her husband, ministers agreed to name the European human rights sanctions regime after him.

After Sweden, Germany and the Baltic states, Spain is now also summoning the Russian ambassador to his country after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Diplomatic sources report this.

The Foreign Ministry sources did not specify when the Russian ambassador in Madrid, Yuri Klimenko, will be summoned. The summons comes a few hours after Sweden, Germany, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania announced they were taking similar steps.

In Germany, the Russian embassy already announced that Navalny’s death is a strictly internal matter for Russia. Moscow rejected Germany’s call to investigate the Kremlin critic’s death, dismissing it as interference in domestic affairs.