The widow of the late russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, Yulia, said that the occupied Crimea actually belongs to the aggressor country russia. The corresponding video was published by the United24 platform.
Navalnaya said during a speech in Finland that the issue of Crimea's belonging "remains complicated."
"The Crimean peninsula belongs to Ukraine, and now it de facto belongs to Russia. This becomes a complicated issue, because we should not forget that millions of people now have Russian passports, and even the Ukrainian authorities admit that this is a very complicated issue," Navalnaya said.
Does handing out Russian passports make a territory Russian?
— UNITED24 Media (@United24media) June 27, 2025
No, it doesn’t — and @yulia_navalnaya should know that. pic.twitter.com/k6E9Fv4brg
According to her, Crimea now belongs to russia, and it will be very difficult to return it.
United24 commented on Navalnaya's statement and emphasized that the occupation and forced issuance of russian passports does not mean that Crimea belongs to russia, "which Yulia Navalnaya should know about."
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on November 12, 2024, Ukrainian activists disrupted the speech of russian Yulia Navalnaya at the Web Summit 2024 conference in Lisbon. They turned on the sound of the air raid siren, which drowned out the microphones.
In March 2024, the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, refused to attend US President Joe Biden's address On The State Of Affairs In The Country due to the presence of Yulia Navalnaya there.
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