Navalny considers Russia’s defeat in Ukraine inevitable.
First, Russia aggressively attacked Ukraine and on ridiculous grounds, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny started his fifteen theses tweets addressed to “decent” citizens.
– There is no justification for war, and volunteers are not fighting in it, but conscripts and prisoners, he continued.
Navalny shares the view expressed many times before by the president Vladimir Putin motives.
– The real reasons for the war are economic and political: the background is Putin’s obsession to stay in power at any cost and to remain in history as a great figure like the tsars once upon a time.
– Because of this, tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainians lose their lives. Thousands and tens of thousands of Russian soldiers die, even though the end result is inevitable: Russia loses the war.
“Russia should recognize the borders of 1991, period”
According to Navalny, Ukraine should be allowed to decide its own future and Russia should respect the borders recognized internationally in 1991, according to which Crimea belongs to Ukraine.
– Russia recognized these borders once and it should recognize them now, period, Navalnyi tweeted.
On the issue of Crimea, Navalnyi seems to have changed his previous position, according to which Crimea does not belong to Ukraine.
– Russia should leave Ukraine alone and compensate for the damage it has caused. Putin’s dictatorship must be ended with free elections and Russia must continue on the path of European development, Navalnyi concludes.
Navalny was tried to be poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent developed in the Soviet Union in 2020. He narrowly survived and blamed Putin for the poisoning attempt.
He received treatment in Germany, but returned to Russia in January 2021, where he was arrested as soon as he landed at Moscow airport.