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Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev: "Look at the smiling, happy face of Navalny's widow"

Photo: Ekaterina Shtukina/dpa

The death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was less than a week ago and the circumstances are still unclear.

Now Russia's ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has commented on the death in an interview - but only to verbally lash out against the deceased and especially his widow.

Medvedev initially said in the conversation he published on his Telegram channel that he couldn't say anything good about the deceased.

Then he turned his attention to Julia Navalnaya.

"Look at the smiling, happy face of Navalny's widow: it seems as if she has been waiting all these years to start her political career," Medvedev claimed.

The slander is a reaction to Navalnaya's announcement that she would continue her husband's fight.

In many of the pictures taken over the past few days, the widow's sadness can be seen.

At the beginning of the week she published a video message in which she appeared not only grieving but also combative.

Navalnaya promised that she would clarify the circumstances of her husband's death and name those responsible.

Medvedev threatens Ukraine massively

According to authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in a prison camp in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal.

The politician, weakened by a poison attack in 2020 and repeated solitary confinement in the camp, is said to have collapsed during a tour of the icy prison yard and died despite attempts to resuscitate him.

He was 47 years old at the time of his death.

The cause of death is unclear.

The authorities have so far denied Navalny's relatives and lawyers access to his body.

In his video interview, Medvedev also announced new threats towards Ukraine.

He announced that the capital Kiev and the port city of Odessa could become possible new war targets.

»Where should we stop?

“I don’t know,” Medvedev said.

»Will it be Kiev?

Yes, probably it should be Kiev.

If not now, then after some time, perhaps in another phase of the development of this conflict." The Russian army should also take Odessa; it is "our Russian, Russian city."

Medvedev was once considered a reformer, but since the war began two years ago he has reinvented himself as an agitator.

He is currently deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council.

Navalny's team only had one short comment for Medvedev's now published video: "Scumbag.

Lousy scumbag."

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