Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the Russian opponent who died in prison committed to continuing the fight against Vladimir Putin in Russia

Yulia Navalnaya is a woman with a mission, to defend the legacy of her husband, who died or was murdered in a Siberian prison and take up his torch for the democratization and freedom of Russia. The widow of the Russian regime’s most famous dissident, Alexei Navalny, landed in Brussels on Monday to meet European foreign ministers at the invitation of the Union’s chancellor, the Spanish-Argentinian Josep Borrell.

Navalnaya claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to assassinate her husband, that he stole half of her being but that she was left with the other half to continue the fight. You asked the European Foreign Ministers tighten sanctions against the Russian regimetheir leaders, their relatives and the countries that help Moscow.

In a video released this Monday before the meeting with European foreign ministers, Yulia Navalnaya said: “I want to live in a free Russia, I want to build a free Russia. I will follow the work of Alexei Navalny. I will continue for our country, with you. And I ask everyone to stay close to me. There’s no shame in doing little, what is a shame is to do nothing, it is a shame to let yourself be terrified”.

Navalyina also says in the video that “three days ago Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny. Putin killed the father of my children. With it he wanted to kill our hope, our freedom, our future.” The widow also says this during Navalny’s imprisonment “he was isolated from the world and even then he didn’t leave” and that “they couldn’t break him, that’s why Putin killed him.”

Yulia Navalnaya is not just a widow, she already had a powerful political profile during her husband’s lifetime among Navalny supporters, even before her husband was imprisoned. On Friday, from the Munich Security Conference and a few hours after learning that her husband had been murdered or died of mistreatment in one of Russia’s toughest prisons (European authorities speak in unison of murder), Navalnaya had already asked Putin to intervene be “punished” because She considered him “personally responsible” for her husband’s death.

This Monday in Brussels he sat next to Borrell at the round table used for meetings of European ministers. In the few seconds of video released by the services of the European institutions, Navalnaya appeared serious, with an obvious expression of tiredness and sadness, but firm.

The chancellors welcomed her standing and with long applause. She explained what she had said in the video, that is, that she will continue with the activism carried out by her husband, whom she had not seen for two years because the Russian prison authorities prohibited any visits to the dissident outside of specific meetings with her her lawyers. .

Borrell welcomed this by saying that Europeans hold Putin responsible for Navalny’s death and that they support Russian civil society and independent media, which does not exist in Russia. But from Brussels, Russia and Ukraine are viewed with pessimism.

Ukrainian troops give ground because they don’t have enough weapons and ammunition to resist the Russians. Because European and American promises are not fulfilled in a timely manner. There is not enough munitions production in Europe for the rate at which Ukraine is expected to spend, and in the United States a minority of Republican lawmakers are blocking a $60 billion package for Kiev that would fund these weapons.

If we add to this a hypothetical return of Donald Trump to the White House, the forecast for Ukraine is grim.

After meeting with foreign ministers, Borrell said that “Putin and his regime will be held responsible for the death of Alexei Navalny. As Yulia said, “Putin is not Russia and Russia is not Putin.”