Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday he was against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine as he stood trial from prison after President Vladimir Putin launched an attack.
“I am against this war,” Navalny was heard saying in a video of the in-prison trial published by independent news outlet Dozhd. “I believe that this war between Russia and Ukraine was unleashed to cover up the theft from Russian citizens and divert their attention from problems that exist inside the country”.
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‘I am against this war’: jailed Kremlin critic Navalny
A photograph taken from a TV screen during live broadcast of the court hearing at the penal colony N2 shows Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny (L) speaking with his wife Yulia ahead of the court hearing at the penal colony N2, on the first day of his new trial, in the town of Pokrov on February 15, 2022. - A new trial against jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny began on February 15, 2022 inside the prison colony where he serves a two-and-a-half year prison term for violating parole, in a case that could see his sentence extended by more than a decade. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
