Putin will have to be held accountable for the death of opponent Navalni, says Josep Borrell

The Russian president, Vladimir Putinwill have to account for the death of the opponent Alexei NavalniThe head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, said this Monday after meeting with the widow, Yulia Navalnaya.

”As Yulia has said, Putin is not Russia, and Russia is not Putin”the European diplomat expressed on the X network, after Navalnaya met with the EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels.

Borrell stated in X that he offered Navalnaya his deepest condolences for the death of her husband, which occurred on Friday in a prison in the Arctic Circle.

Navalnaya took a place as a guest at the meeting of European ministers this Monday, but the speech was not broadcast.

On the day, Navalnaya accused Putin of being “personally responsible” for her husband’s death and called on the international community to unite to overthrow the “terrifying regime.”

”Vladimir Putin killed my husband Alexei Navalny. “Putin killed the father of my children,”signed Navalnaya holding back tears in a video published this Monday on social networks. ”With him, (Putin) wanted to kill our spirit, our freedom, our future,” he added.

Navalny was the most prominent opponent of the Russian government, with his complaints of alleged corruption under Putin’s government.

In 2020, Navalnaya managed to allow her husband, who was in a coma in Siberia due to poisoning, to leave Russia. She was also at her side when she returned to Russia from Germany.

Navalny, convicted of “extremism”, he was serving a 19-year sentence in a remote Arctic prison colony after trials that, according to many voices, were politically motivated.