Navalny seemingly killed by ‘one punch’ to the center in basic KGB tactic, activist claims

World Information

By Snejana Farberov

Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny could have been killed with a single punch to the center, a “hallmark of the KGB,” in line with a human rights activist claiming to have insider intel.

The Kremlin’s fiercest critic was discovered with bruising on his head and chest in line with the “one-punch” approach, Vladimir Osechkin, founding father of the human rights group Gulagu.internet, advised The Instances of London, citing a supply on the distant “Polar Wolf” penal colon the place Navalny died Friday.

“It’s an previous technique of the KGB’s particular forces divisions,” Osechkin stated, referring to the much-feared Soviet-era inner safety service.

“They educated their operatives to kill a person with one punch within the coronary heart, within the heart of the physique. It was a trademark of the KGB.”

In preparation for the deadly strike, Navalny, 47, had been stored open air for greater than two hours within the Yamalo-Nenets area’s harsh subzero temperatures to weaken his physique, Osechkin stated, citing the unidentified supply working on the jail.

“I believe that they first destroyed his physique by holding him out within the chilly for a very long time and slowing the blood circulation right down to a minimal,” Osechkin stated. “After which it turns into very straightforward to kill somebody, inside seconds, if the operative has some expertise on this.”

Former inmates who had served sentences within the Arctic area had beforehand reported fellow prisoners being killed by guards on this method, Osechkin stated.

Practically every week after Russia’s jail service reported that Navalny — President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest home foe who had survived a poisoning try in 2020 — collapsed and died whereas taking a stroll, his official reason for demise has not been launched.

A demise discover that was given to his mom and attorneys said that Navalny had died from a “sudden demise syndrome” — a imprecise time period that describes heart-related points inflicting demise.

The Russian authorities have refused handy over his physique to his household, saying that it was wanted for a two-week “chemical examination,” Navalny’s aide, Kira Yarmysh, reported.

Navalny’s widow, Yulia, has accused Putin’s regime of poisoning her husband with the nerve agent Novichok — the identical chemical utilized in his 2020 failed assassination try — after which delaying the discharge of his physique to cowl up the homicide.

Osechkin stated he thought this was unlikely.

“It’s doable after all, however when somebody is below the management of the jail system there are lots of choices as to kill them,” the activist defined. “Novichok would go away a hint in his physique and would lead instantly again to Putin, given he has tried it as soon as earlier than.”

The Kremlin has vehemently denied any involvement in Navalny’s demise, with Putin’s spokesman slamming these allegations as “unfounded and impolite.”