Tuesday 20 February 2024 13:16, UK
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, has had her account suspended on social media platform X.
It is unclear why her account was suspended by Elon Musk’s social network, formerly known as Twitter.
A notice on her account read, “Your account has been suspended.”
This came after she vowed to continue her husband’s fight against the Kremlin and accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of murdering Russia’s opposition leader in a powerful nine-minute video.
In the video, published on YouTube on Monday and also shared by Navalny’s official spokesperson Kira Yarmysh on X, she says authorities’ refusal to hand over Navalny’s body to his mother was part of a cover-up. insisted.
“They cowardly and despicably hid the body, refusing to give it to the mother and lying in misery while waiting for the traces of ‘poison’ to disappear,” Navalnaya said.
She suggested that her husband may have been killed with a Novichok-type nerve agent.
The Kremlin denied the allegations, calling them “groundless” and “arrogant.”
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