Speaking during a closed door trial, Mr Navalny says Russia is ‘floundering in a pool of either mud or blood, with broken bones’
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is “floundering in a pool of either mud or blood” over its “senseless” invasion of Ukraine, Alexei Navalny said on Thursday as he stared down 20 years in jail.
The Russian opposition leader is already serving a nine-year prison sentence at the IK-6 penal colony, some 155 miles east of Moscow.
Prosecutors were requesting a jail term of 20 years for Mr Navalny, to be served in an even more restrictive prison.
Speaking during a closed door trial, Mr Navalny said Russia was “floundering in a pool of either mud or blood, with broken bones, with a poor and robbed population”.