World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government. “It is obvious that he was killed by Putin,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was visiting Germany as he sought aid for his country as it fights off an invasion by Russia. “Putin doesn’t care who dies — only for him to hold his position. This is why he must hold onto nothing.
” Former world chess champion-turned-opposition activist Garry Kasparov said, “Putin tried and failed to murder Navalny quickly and secretly with poison, and now he has murdered him slowly and publicly in prison.” “He was killed for exposing Putin and his mafia as the crooks and thieves they are,” Kasparov, who lives abroad, wrote on X. Pyotr Verzilov, a prominent member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot, said, “Navalny was murdered in prison.
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