Yulia Navalnaya is a girl with a mission, to guard the legacy of her husband, who died or was killed in a Siberian jail and take up his torch for the democratization and freedom of Russia. The widow of the Russian regime's most well-known dissident, Alexei Navalny, landed in Brussels this Monday to fulfill with European overseas ministers on the invitation of the bloc's chancellor, Spanish-Argentinian Josep Borrell.
Navalnaya claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to kill her husband, that it stole half of her being, however the different half is left to proceed the combat. He requested European overseas ministers the tightening of sanctions in opposition to the Russian regimetheir bosses, their family and nations that assist Moscow.
In a video revealed this Monday earlier than the assembly with European overseas ministers, Yulia Navalnaya stated: “I wish to stay in a free Russia, I wish to construct a free Russia. I’ll observe the work of Alexei Navalny. I’ll proceed for our nation, with you. And I ask everybody to be by my aspect. There's no disgrace in doing slightly, what’s shameful is to do nothing, it’s shameful to permit your self to be terrified“.
Navalyina additionally says within the video that “three days in the past Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny. Putin killed the daddy of my youngsters. With it, he needed to kill our hope, our freedom, our future.” The widow additionally says that in his imprisonment Navalny “He was remoted from the world and even then he didn’t go away” and that “they couldn't break it, that's why Putin killed it”.
Yulia Navalnaya just isn’t solely a widow, she already had a robust political profile throughout her husband's lifetime amongst Navalny's supporters, even earlier than her husband was imprisoned. On Friday, from the Munich Safety Convention and only some hours after studying that her husband had been killed or died of abuse in one of many harshest prisons in Russia (European authorities converse in unison concerning the homicide), Navalnaya already known as Putin to be “punished” as a result of She held him “personally accountable” for her husband's dying.
This Monday in Brussels, he took a seat subsequent to Borrel on the spherical desk used for conferences of European ministers. In a number of seconds of the video revealed by the providers of the European establishments, Navalnaya appeared critical. with an apparent expression of weariness and unhappiness, however decided.
The chancellors acquired him standing and with lengthy applause. She advised them what she had stated within the video, that she would proceed the activism of her husband, whom she had not seen prior to now two years, as a result of Russian jail authorities barred all visits to the dissident past particular conferences together with his legal professionals. his. .
Borrell acknowledged this by saying that Europeans maintain Putin chargeable for Navalny's dying and that they help Russian civil society and unbiased media, one thing that doesn’t exist in Russia. However from Brussels, Russia and Ukraine are seen with pessimism.
Ukrainian troops give floor as a result of they don't have sufficient weapons and ammunition to face the Russians. As a result of European and American guarantees will not be fulfilled on the proper time. There may be not sufficient munitions manufacturing in Europe for the size at which Ukraine must spend, and in the USA a minority of Republican congressmen are blocking a $60 billion bundle for Kiev that ought to finance these weapons.
If we add to this a hypothetical return of Donald Trump to the White Home, the forecasts for Ukraine are gloomy.
After the assembly with overseas ministers, Borrell stated that “Putin and his regime will bear accountability for the dying of Alexei Navalny. As Julia stated, “Putin just isn’t Russia and Russia just isn’t Putin.”