Russian opponent Alexei Navalny – who is in prison and facing trial – called on his compatriots on Wednesday to demonstrate daily against the invasion of Ukraine ordered by President Vladimir Putin.
“I urge everyone to take to the streets and fight for peace,” Navalny said in a statement posted on Facebook, urging Russians not to be afraid of being jailed.
“If to stop the war we need to fill the prisons and the police vans, we will fill the prisons and the police vans,” he added.
“Everything has a price and now in the spring of 2022, we have to pay that price,” he continued.
Leader of the opposition and organizer of large demonstrations in recent years against President Vladimir Putin, Navalny was arrested in January 2021 upon arrival in Moscow, after months of convalescence in Germany after being poisoned, an act he blamed on the Russian president.
Navalny is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for a case of fraud that he considers political.
“I am against this war. I believe that this war between Russia and Ukraine is being waged to cover up the robbery of Russian citizens and divert their attention from the problems that exist within the country, from the deterioration of the economy,” Navalny said during a court hearing last Thursday, the day when Putin launched the invasion of the neighboring country. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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