MOSCOW: Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, mentioned on Monday (Feb 19) that she would proceed her husband’s struggle for a free Russia and known as on supporters to battle President Vladimir Putin with larger fury than ever.
“I need to stay in a free Russia, I need to construct a free Russia,” Navalnaya mentioned in a video message entitled “I’ll proceed the work of Alexei Navalny”.
“Vladimir Putin killed my husband,” Navalnaya mentioned, including that she would work with the Russian individuals to battle with the Kremlin to create a brand new Russia.
The Kremlin has denied involvement in his loss of life.
“By killing Alexei, Putin killed half of me – half of my coronary heart and half of my soul,” Navalnaya mentioned.
“However I nonetheless have the opposite half, and it tells me that I’ve no proper to surrender. I’ll proceed the work of Alexei Navalny, proceed to struggle for our nation.”
“I urge you to face subsequent to me,” she mentioned. “I ask you to share the fashion with me. Rage, anger, hatred in the direction of those that dared to kill our future.”
Navalnaya accused the Russian authorities of hiding Navalny’s physique and of ready for traces of the Novichok nerve agent to vanish from his physique.
“We all know precisely why Putin killed Alexei three days in the past,” she mentioned. “We’ll inform you about it quickly. We will certainly discover out who precisely carried out this crime and the way precisely. We’ll title the names and present the faces.”
