2023-06-28 07:18:45
The imprisoned Kremlin opponent Alexej Navalny has attested to the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lack of popular support with regard to the mercenary uprising a few days ago. “At the moment when military columns drove to Moscow to occupy it, nobody stood up to defend Putin,” Navalny said on Tuesday through his team on social networks. “There was no national unity around him (Putin).” The Kremlin boss is apparently even more unpopular among the population than the insurgent leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said Navalny.
Anti-Kremlin Alexei Navalny is during a Supreme Court hearing via video link from penal colony 6 in Melekhovo, where he is being held.
Image: Keystone/AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko
“There is no greater threat to Russia than the Putin regime,” added the 47-year-old opposition politician, who is internationally considered a political prisoner. After all, the president himself once pardoned many of the convicted criminals who fought for Prigozhin’s troops. “Putin’s regime is so dangerous to the country that even its inevitable collapse poses the risk of civil war.”
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1. There is no greater threat to Russia than the Putin regime. It wasn’t the West or the opposition that shot down Russian helicopters over Russia. It wasn’t the ACF that brought Russia to the brink of civil war (which we may still be finding ourselves on).— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) June 27, 2023
Prigozhin, whose mercenaries had previously fought alongside the regular Russian army in Ukraine for months, last Saturday escalated a long-simmering power struggle within the Russian military leadership. The Wagner fighters first occupied the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and then marched on towards Moscow. Their practically unhindered advance only stopped a good 200 kilometers from the Russian capital. Later, in a televised address, Putin claimed that Russian society had proved united in its opposition to the uprising.
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