Russian troops killed a Ukrainian civilian after discovering he shared a surname with opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the imprisoned Kremlin critic alleged Tuesday.
The body of Ilya Navalny was found in Bucha among 400 others who were killed amid Russia’s invasion. Ilya Navalny was identified after his passport was found near his remains, prompting Alexei Navalny to accuse Russian troops of killing the civilian because they assumed the two were related.“Everything indicates that they killed him because of his last name,” Alexei Navalny said in a tweet. “That's why his passport was defiantly thrown nearby.
1/9 A passport with the surname “Navalny” lies next to the dead body on the ground. This is one of the people killed in the Ukrainian village of Bucha. Ilya Ivanovich Navalny. pic.twitter.com/vxfdkrTmLvUKRAINIAN MILITARY TELLS MILITARY TO BOMB HIS RUSSIAN-OCCUPIED MANSION The dissident, currently serving a 2 1/2-year sentence and facing another sentence of up to 13 years on charges of fraud and contempt of court that he says are politically motivated, has remained a staunch critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin since his imprisonment, previously calling on Russians to protest the “obviously insane tsar” and his invasion of Ukraine.
“This war was also unleashed by a raving maniac obsessed with some nonsense about geopolitics, history and the structure of the world,” he said in a tweet Tuesday. “This maniac will not stop himself. He, like a drug addict, got hooked on death, war and lies — he needs them to maintain his power.”More than 2,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since the invasion began, with another 2,818 injured, according to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
The Western world looked to Bucha, a suburb northwest of the capital city of Kyiv, with shock and dismay last month after hundreds of bodies were found in a mass grave following Russian forces' occupation of the town.
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