Ukraine’s prime spy chief says Alexei Navalny ‘died from a blood clot’

Ukraine’s prime spy chief has claimed that Alexi Navalny could have ‘died from a blood clot’ amid widespread hypothesis that the outspoken Putin critic was murdered by Russian spies.

The anti-corruption campaigner, who was serving a 19 yr jail sentence within the arctic Polar Wolf penal colony, was discovered lifeless earlier this month with Russia claiming he died type ‘sudden dying syndrome’ whereas on a stroll.

Yet many have speculated that he was killed on Putin’s order, with Latvian President Edgar Rinkeish bluntly stating: ‘Whatever you take into consideration Alexi Navalny, as a politician he was simply brutally murdered by the Kremlin.’ 

Today, nevertheless, Okyrylo Budanov, the pinnacle of Ukraine’s GUR army intelligence service, instructed his dying may very well be all the way down to pure causes. 

He advised reporters: ‘I could disappoint you, however what we all know is that he actually died from a blood clot. And this is kind of confirmed. This was not taken from the Internet, however, sadly, a pure [death].’

Anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, who was serving a 19 yr jail sentence within the arctic Polar Wolf penal colony, was discovered lifeless earlier this month

Ukraine’s prime spy chief Kyrylo Budanov has claimed that Navalny could have ‘died from a blood clot’

Vladimir Putin has not commented publicly on the dying however the Kremlin known as the West’s response ‘hysterical’ 

Prison authorities refused to launch Nalvany’s physique for greater than every week after he died. Yesterday, his corpse was lastly handed again to his mom following an agonising nine-day wait. 

‘Alexey’s physique was handed over to his mom. Many because of all those that demanded this with us,’ Kira Yarmysh wrote on X.

She mentioned mom Lyudmila Ivanovna, 69, was nonetheless in Salekhard, close to the grisly IK-3 Arctic penal colony the place her son had been held since December on ‘extremism expenses’, and that the funeral continues to be ‘pending’. 

‘We have no idea if the authorities will intervene to hold it out because the household desires and as Alexey deserves,’ she added.

Following Navalny’s dying, his grieving widow Yulia Navalnaya accused Putin of ‘torturing him lifeless’.

Ahead of the discharge of his physique she mentioned: ‘Give us the physique of my husband. You tortured him alive, and now you retain torturing him lifeless. You mock the stays of the lifeless.

‘No true Christian may ever do what Putin is now doing with the physique of Alexei.’

His mom had initially been blocked from seeing her sons stays, with studies claiming he had been left battered and bruised. She mentioned that Russian officers have been attempting to blackmail her and threatened to ‘do one thing’ to the corpse. 

Navalny, proper, embraces his spouse Yulia, as he was launched by a court docket in Kirov, Russia, July 19, 2013, after he was launched from custody after being convicted of embezzlement

Lyudmila Navalnaya, the mom of Alexei Navalny, and lawyer Vasily Dubkov arrive on the city of Salekhard on February 17 earlier than being advised they may not see the physique

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his spouse Yulia Navalnaya in September 2020

Following the discharge of his physique, his widow known as Putin ‘Satan’ for holding her husband’s physique ‘hostage‘.

The grieving widow mentioned: ‘What Putin is doing now’s hate. No, it isn’t even hatred, it is Satanism.’

‘What will you do together with his corpse? How low will you sink to mock the person you murdered?’ she continued.

The Kremlin has denied allegations of its involvement in Navalny’s dying, calling the West’s response ‘hysterical’. Putin, who famously by no means mentioned Navalny’s identify in public, has not commented on the dying of his most vocal critic.