Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Monday that Moscow’s forces had committed war crimes in Ukraine and he accused President Vladimir Putin…
In a post on social media ahead of the first anniversary of the Ukraine invasion on Feb. 24, Navalny said Russia had hit “rock bottom” and could only recover once the “Putin dictatorship” had been dismantled and Moscow started to “reimburse” Kyiv for the damage inflicted during the war.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
He has continued to speak out against Putin from jail. This month he said he had been moved to a harsher “cell-type” regime of solitary confinement for the next six months where he would be denied visits.“The real reasons for this war are the political and economic problems within Russia, Putin’s desire to hold on to power at any cost, and his obsession with his own historical legacy. He wants to go down in history as ‘the conqueror tsar’…,” Navalny said in Monday’s tweets.
That would include the annexed peninsula of Crimea – though Navalny, who has been criticized in the past over ambiguous statements regarding his position on Moscow’s 2014 annexation, did not explicitly mention Crimea in his posts.Article content “We have hit rock bottom,” Navalny said. “We need to dismantle the Putin regime and its dictatorship.”
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