Navalny's wife: Kremlin hiding body to cover up killing
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny‘s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, accused the Kremlin of hiding his body to cover up his killing and vowed to continue the fight against Putin.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's widow accused the Kremlin on Monday of hiding his body to cover up killing him in an Arctic penal colony.
Vowing to continue her late husband's fight against President Vladimir Putin, Yulia Navalnaya called on Russians to rally around her in a lengthy video address.
Her comments came as Navalny's team said his mother and lawyers were denied access to his body and told the probe into what killed him had been extended, with the body under “chemical examination” for another 14 days.
“Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband,” Navalnaya, 47, said in a nine-minute video posted to YouTube ahead of her meeting with European Union foreign ministers in Brussels. She said authorities were waiting for traces of “yet another Putin's Novichok” to leave his body — referring to the military nerve agent used to poison him years ago.
The Kremlin has denied involvement in that poisoning and dismissed suggestions that Putin was behind his death on Friday.
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