Shocking twist as Alexei Navalny ‘died of a blood clot and was not killed by Putin’, Ukraine’s top spy claims – The Sun

ALEXEI Navalny may have died of natural causes, a Ukrainian spy chief has claimed.

Kyrylo Budanov, the head of UkraineThe GUR’s formidable military intelligence appeared to pour cold water on the claim that Navalny, 47, had been killed.

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The anti-corruption campaigner was found dead in a Russian gulag this month, leading to claims he was killed on Putin’s orders.

He served a 19 years jail punishment in a penal colony of the Arctic Polar Wolf.

Lativan President Edgar Rinkevich said: “Whatever you think about Alexei Navalnyas a politician he was simply brutally murdered by the Kremlin.”

But I was speaking on the sidelines of a major press conference in Kiev, marking two years Russia Ukraine, Lt. Gen. Budanov said Navalny’s cause of death had been “more or less confirmed.”

He said: ‘I may disappoint you, but what we know is that he really died of a blood clot.

“And this is more or less confirmed.

“This was not taken from the internet, but unfortunately a natural product [death].”

Prison authorities had refused to release Navalny’s body more than a week after his death.

His grieving widow Yulia Navalnaya accused Vladimir Putin of “torturing him to death”.

She demanded: ‘Give us my husband’s body.

“You tortured him alive, and now you continue to torture him to death. You mock the remains of the dead.

“No true Christian could ever do what Putin is doing to Alexei’s body.”

Navalny’s mother Lyudmila, 69, had originally been as well blocked from seeing her son’s remains – with reports that he was left battered and bruised.

It had only been two days, six painful days after her son’s death Lyudmila was even shown her son’s body.

The grieving mother claimed that Russian officials were trying to blackmail herand threatened to do “something” to the corpse.

asked the cruel tyrant Navalny‘s mother must choose between two alternatives: agreeing to a secret funeral in an undisclosed location or have her son’s body buried forever the Polar Wolf Prison.

“They want this to happen in secret, without goodbye. They want to take me to the edge of a cemetery, to a new grave and say: here lies your son. I do not agree with this,” she said in a speech . YouTube video.

Only after internal pressure from Navalny’s family and the Russian Orthodox Church on Putin was the body released.

Vladimir PutinIt is believed that the film’s most loyal critic has been murdered Polar Wolf penal colony where he was jailed on trumped-up charges.

According to Navalny’s team, Russian officials have denied these allegations and instead claimed he died of “natural causes.”

On February 17, Navalny’s mother and his lawyer were told he had done so died of “sudden death syndrome”.

It has since emerged that hospital staff in Salekhard had a collection of bruises on Navalny’s body when he arrived.

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