Alexei Navalny's widow has accused Russian authorities of killing her husband with the nerve agent novichok, famously used in the 2018 Salisbury attack in the UK.
In a video statement posted to YouTube, Yulia Navalnaya said her late husband's body is being hidden as Russian authorities wait for "traces of yet another of Putin's novichok to disappear."
She continued: "My husband could not be broken. And that's exactly why Putin killed him. Shameful, cowardly, not daring to look into his eyes or simply say his name.
"And as vile and cowardly they are now hiding his body, they are not showing it, not giving it to his mother, and they are pathetically lying and waiting for the traces of yet another of Putin's novichok to disappear there."
She vowed to continue the legacy of her husband, not only by uncovering those involved in his death but by publicly naming them.
She repeatedly blamed Vladimir Putin directly for Navalny's death.
She said: "Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband... We know exactly why Putin killed Alexei three days ago. We will tell you soon about it. We will also definitely find out who exactly and how exactly this crime was committed. We will name names and show faces."
Novichok, the nerve agent Navalnaya believes was used to kill Navalny, was famously used in 2018 in the Salisbury poisonings of Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
Our CIA took him out to get the cabal's spending bill done.
@FluentBobolinkGreen3mos3MO
saying aloud what a lot of us are thinking...
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
Someone has to say it aloud
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
Someone had to blast an unproven and likely false conspiracy theory. President’s and legislators don’t have the kind of power, even when implied, to use an extrajudicial killing to force a bill into fruition. There’s no proof for that.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
Sorry, I didn't realise you had such a profound and irrational faith in human nature as to think it's unhealthy to question the motives of power holders, nor such a profound ignorance of history as to think that it would be extraordinary for such conspiratorial activities to have occurred. But apparently you do. Hate to burst your bubble, but history is littered with examples of power holders covertly doing EXTREMELY shady things not unlike this killing – take JFK's assassination, for example – WHY DO WE STILL NOT HAVE THE TRUTH? It's not dangerous or irrationa… Read more
@RuffsJoeWorking Family3mos3MO
I just don't see what Putin gains from killing him in custody in making him a martyr at this point.
@TruthfulTreasuryLibertarian3mos3MO
He polls at 2.5%.
He was already in prison.
What did killing him achieve?
@MindfulCamelRepublican3mos3MO
Putin tried and failed to murder Navalny quickly and secretly with poison, and now he has murdered him slowly and publicly in prison. He was killed for exposing Putin and his mafia as the crooks and thieves they are. My thoughts are with the brave man's wife and children.
@C1vilRightsBobolinkDemocrat3mos3MO
Navalny's murder is a chilling reminder that the fight for freedom against tyrants like Putin is far from over. We must stand firm in this battle.
@JealousC0al1tion3mos3MO
Putin is a classic dictator, and his greatest fear is nothing more than dissent from his own people. A stark reminder of what Putin and his regime are all about. Navalny is a hero!
@WakefulBipartisanGreen3mos3MO
He wanted a Pure ethnic Russia. No immigrants. Made racist statements about Muslims. Made racist videos in the past. I can’t imagine how he felt about Black people. He was known as being Xenophobic. He chose politics over his wife & kids. Why is he a hero? Seems selfish to me.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
Everything is going Putin's way – his Tucker Carlson interview showed him to be competent, learned, and strategic, whatever your feelings about him, and rightly gained much attention. He just achieved a major victory in Ukraine. Everything is going Putin's way – and then, we're supposed to believe, he killed a guy who's been in prison for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, who had no chance of beating him in the CHARADE that is Russian "elections"? And he waited till three weeks before the election to do it? And, on top of all that, he waited till Congress reached… Read more
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
It’s also common for him to do things with seemingly no reason. Russia is knee-deep in espionage and lies, it’s likely he killed Navalny NOW for some matter related to the geopolitical crisis at hand.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
What matter related to the geopolitical crisis? As is self-evident after any rational examination, it hurts him infinitely and benefits him not at all to kill a guy who's at TWO AND A HALF PERCENT in the polls and has been in prison for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. There's no way on earth he killed him.
@9CJ6CB63mos3MO
He tried to before, and I’m not saying for 100% sure he did, but I have extreme distrust for the leader of the most corrupt nation on earth, which has espionage and geopolitical issues many of us will never know about.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution3mos3MO
I have extreme distrust of him too – but I also recognise that he is far from stupid. And clearly, killing Navalny would have been stupid and useless.
@9K4NBLD3mos3MO
I don't think Putin poisoned her husband
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