Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny, claims her late husband was killed by the presidential administration of Vladimir Putin. She also claims her family has been prohibited from viewing the body so as to allow traces of the nerve agent Novichok to leave his system.
Yulia made the claims on Alexei’s YouTube channel on Monday. “We know exactly why Putin killed Alexei three days ago,” she said. “We will tell you about it soon. We will definitely find out who exactly carried out this crime and how exactly. We will name the names and show the faces.”
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It did not take US President Joe Biden long to make accusations. “Make no mistake: Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death,” he told a room of reporters at a White House news conference. “What has happened to Navalny is even more proof of Putin’s brutality.” At the same time, Biden admitted the US does not know for sure the cause of the politician’s death.
In 2021, Biden had said there would be “devastating” consequences should Navalny die in prison—a threat he claims to have made to Putin personally. Biden also said that a chemical poisoning of Navalny would have violated the international treaty prohibiting chemical weapons and would have been prosecuted accordingly.
Navalny’s mother and his family’s lawyers have been trying unsuccessfully for days to retrieve his body from the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital. Authorities tell them the postmortem assessment has been prolonged indefinitely. “They are lying, buying time for themselves, and not even hiding it,” said spokesperson Kira Yarmysh.
As Valuetainment previously reported, Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison on Friday, less than a month before the next Russian presidential election. He was serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges of “extremism,” which he received when he returned to Russia in 2021—after having spent time in Germany while recovering from nerve agent poisoning. He received a number of other fraud convictions that brought his total sentence up to 30 years.
Former president Donald Trump weighed in on Navalny’s death, seemingly connecting his political imprisonment to what he perceives as a political witch hunt against himself.
Shane Devine is a writer covering politics, economics, and culture for Valuetainment. Follow Shane on X (Twitter).
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