Skip next section Attacked Navalny ally calls on West to send more arms to Ukraine05/18/2024 May 18, 2024 Attacked Navalny ally calls on West to send more arms to UkraineLeonid Volkov, the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's close ally, called on Western countries to send more arms to Ukraine and not to consider negotiation with Russia, despite its recent advances.
He said Putin was "bluffing in a way to present himself like much stronger than he is, hopeful it will be enough to force Ukraine and its Western allies to enter some negotiation... don’t get bluffed."
Volkov said it was necessary to exert "military pressure, economic pressure, political pressure, from inside, from outside" on Putin.
He said there was "no substitution" for Navalny, but "everybody" saw his wife Yulia Navalnaya as the new "charismatic" leader of the opposition movement, even though "she never wanted to be in this public role."
Navalny died suddenly in February while being held in an arctic prison colony on charges seen as politically motivated.
Skip next section Attacked Navalny ally calls on West to send more arms to Ukraine
05/18/2024 May 18, 2024 Attacked Navalny ally calls on West to send more arms to Ukraine
Leonid Volkov, the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's close ally, called on Western countries to send more arms to Ukraine and not to consider negotiation with Russia, despite its recent advances.
In his first television interview since a brutal hammer attack in March outside his home in Lithuania, where he lives in exile, Volkov told the BBC that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was "killing thousands of people," whether political opponents at home, in Europe or in Ukraine.
He said Putin was "bluffing in a way to present himself like much stronger than he is, hopeful it will be enough to force Ukraine and its Western allies to enter some negotiation... don’t get bluffed."
Volkov said it was necessary to exert "military pressure, economic pressure, political pressure, from inside, from outside" on Putin.
He said there was "no substitution" for Navalny, but "everybody" saw his wife Yulia Navalnaya as the new "charismatic" leader of the opposition movement, even though "she never wanted to be in this public role."
Navalny died suddenly in February while being held in an arctic prison colony on charges seen as politically motivated.
