Use of nuclear weapons?

Navalny widow: “Putin would probably do it”

Julia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, during the interview with the German Press Agency on the sidelines of the Ludwig Erhard Summit at Tegernsee.

(Bild: APA/dpa/Peter Kneffel)

Kremlin opponent Yulia Navalny considers Russia's President Vladimir Putin to be unpredictable - and does not rule out the possibility that the Kremlin leader could use nuclear weapons at some point. Nobody knows "what Putin will do tomorrow."

"We don't know what to expect from him," said the widow of the deceased Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in an interview with the German press agency dpa. She added: "He probably would."

It was like at the beginning of the Russian war against Ukraine: she would not have expected Putin's attack back then either, because there were such strong ties between the two countries. "But he decided to do it. He scares people and keeps them in fear. Nobody knows what Putin will do tomorrow." She is not sure whether the Kremlin leader really has a "strong strategy".

"He starts wars, he kills his opponents"
Navalnaya sees the arrest of several suspected Russian spies as a further sign that Putin has long been waging his war in the heart of Europe by any means necessary. "Putin hasn't started now - he's been doing it all along. He starts wars, he kills his opponents," she said, adding: "I have always assumed that there are many Russian spies in Europe, that is obvious."

Navalnaya rather regrets that Europe did not name the dangers emanating from Russia earlier. "I would have preferred it if Europe had addressed this much more frequently and earlier. Then we could probably have prevented a few wars and a few murders."

Russian saboteurs arrested in Bavaria
Two German-Russian citizens were arrested in Bavaria on Wednesday for allegedly scouting out targets for possible acts of sabotage in Germany for Moscow. The duo are in custody.

In Poland, the local secret service arrested a man who allegedly wanted to help Russian military intelligence plan an assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.