Russian oppositionist Yulia Navalna, who organized an anti-war demonstration on Sunday in Berlin, admitted today that she has no immediate plan to end Vladimir Putin's regime, but hopes for its collapse, AFP reported, BTA reported.
Russian oppositionists, living in exile due to repression in Russia and weakened by internal conflicts, lost their leader in February 2024. - the charismatic anti-corruption fighter Alexei Navalny, husband of Yulia Navalny, who died in prison under unclear circumstances.
Forty-eight-year-old Navalna, who took over the leadership of her husband's movement, admitted that “nobody in the opposition has a plan” how to end the invasion of Ukraine and the rule of President Vladimir Putin.
„If someone had a plan, we would certainly have accepted and implemented it a long time ago,” she said in an interview with the Russian opposition TV station “Dozhd”.
„Everything is changing fast and no one knows what we will have to adapt to or what we will have to deal with tomorrow,” she continued, adding that the opposition should focus on the daily actions of opposing Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine.
She confirmed that "there will be a plan, but it will take a long time." "We will certainly win, we cannot allow a murderer and a war criminal to rule the country," added Navalna.
Three Russian opposition figures living in exile, including Navalna, staged the first major anti-war and anti-Putin demonstration abroad in Berlin on Sunday, amid tens of thousands of Russians who have fled their homeland since 2022. this way.
„We have to do at least something to bring down the regime faster,", Navalna explained, pointing out that it is important to show that “a large number of people are against Putin and against the war”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that Russian oppositionists are "cut off to a huge extent and permanently from their country". “Their opinion does not matter at all”, he emphasized to journalists.
In his interview for “Rain“ Yulia Navalna once again called for an immediate end to the war in Ukraine and for the withdrawal of Russian forces.
However, she indicated that she did not want “defeat” for his homeland, and “defeat for Vladimir Putin, as quickly as possible".