Alexei Navalny’s bruised body has allegedly been seen in a morgue as Alexander Litvinenko’s widow calls for support from the West for critics of the “monster” Vladimir Putin.
An independent Russian newspaper cited an anonymous source claiming that the body of the Vladimir Putin critic had been delivered to a morgue at the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital, although the location of his body has not been confirmed.
The unnamed source, identified as an experienced paramedic, told Novaya Gazeta Europe on Sunday that his body was bruised and had been transported from the nearby town of Labytnangi.
Mr Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, and his lawyers were not allowed into the morgue, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. "One of the lawyers was literally pushed out," she said.
It comes as Marina Litvinenko, whose husband died in 2006 after being poisoned in London with Polonium 210, called Putin a “monster” as she told Sky News: “We are living here in the West, we need to support [opposition figures] in Russia.”
It comes as the jailed opposition figure’s team accused authorities of deliberately hiding his body to “cover traces” of what they claim is a clear act of murder.
Mr Navalny’s wife, Vladimir Kara-Murza told the BBC the Russian President believes that he is “untouchable” after years of an iron grip on the country, as she accused the autocrat of murdering her husband.
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