Navalny's widow asks the EU to innovate to combat Putin's "criminal plot" in Russia

BRUSELAS, 28 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the late Russian opponent Alexeni Navalni, assured this Wednesday in the European Parliament that the European Union must be brave and innovate to pursue the "criminal plot" of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, insisting that it has to address another strategy. once traditional sanctions have proven to be of little use in putting a stop to his regime in Russia.

In an emotional speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, the wife of the dissident, who died 12 days ago in a remote Arctic prison where he was serving a sentence of nearly 30 years for fraud and extremism, has pointed out that the EU does not deal with a politician, but "with a bloody monster" who leads a "criminal" organization that includes "murderers and poisoners." "But they are puppets, the important thing is their closest people: their friends, front men and collaborators. We must combat the criminal network," she urged.

In this sense, he has stressed that instead of sanctions or diplomatic actions, the EU must promote investigations that tighten the siege on the Kremlin regime and those who provide funds to the Russian president.

"If they want to defeat Putin, they have to innovate, they have to stop being worried and they cannot harm him with another resolution or another round of sanctions that is in no way different from others. You cannot defeat Putin thinking that he is a man of principles who has moral," Navalnaya warned MEPs.

Thus, he has assured that the EU has to count on the tens of thousands of Russians against Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. "They should not persecute us but work with us," she snapped.

Navalnaya, who received a standing ovation before and after her speech in the European Parliament, insisted that her husband's case shows that Putin "is capable of anything and nothing can be negotiated with him." And she ended her speech by insisting that the Russian president will answer for what he has done to Russia, to Ukraine, and to her husband, her main political opponent for the last decade.