Address by Yulia NAVALNAYA, Alexei NAVALNY's wife. This footage shows her meeting with Roberta METSOLA, EP President, and extracts from the formal sitting. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Strasbourg

plenary session

EU - Russia (T)

respect for human rights in the world (T)

speech

NAVALNY, Alexei (RU)

NAVALNAYA, Yulia

Address by Yulia NAVALNAYA, Alexei NAVALNY's wife: meeting with Roberta METSOLA, EP President and extracts from the formal sitting

Arrival of Yulia NAVALNAYA, Alexei NAVALNY's wife, welcome by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Strasbourg, France, 28/02/2024, (6 shots).

Yulia NAVALNAYA, Alexei NAVALNY's wife, meeting with Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Strasbourg, France, 28/02/2024, (4 shots).

Chamber, arrival of Yulia NAVALNAYA, Alexei NAVALNY's with Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Strasbourg, France, 28/02/2024, (8 shots).

SOUNDBITE (English), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, On the 16th of February, we received the tragic news of Sakharov Prize Laureate Alexei Navalny's death. For many in Russia and outside, he represented hope. Hope in better days, hope in a free Russia, hope in the future. Hope that courage can overcome. And while his killers sought to cruelly extinguish that hope, they failed.

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, The funeral will take place the day after tomorrow, and I'm not sure yet whether it will be peaceful or whether the police will arrest those who have come to say good bye to my husband.

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny. On his orders, Alexei was tortured for three years. He was starved in a tiny stone cell, cut off from the outside world and denied visits, phone calls and then even letters. And then, they killed him.

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, Many people have the feeling that Putin cannot be defeated at all. And in this desperation, they are not asking me how can I help you?

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, You have to stop being boring. You cannot hurt Putin with another resolution or another set of sanctions. That is no different from the previous ones. You cannot defeat him by thinking he is a man of principle who has morals and rules.

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, You are not dealing with a politician, but with a bloody monster. Putin is the leader of an organised criminal gang.

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, In this fight, you have reliable allies. There are tens of millions of Russians who are against war, against Putin, against the evil he brings. We must not persecute them. On the contrary, you must work with them. With us.

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, Putin must answer for what he has done with my country. Putin must answer for what he has done to a neighbouring peaceful country. And Putin must answer for everything he has done to Alexei.

SOUNDBITE (English), Yulia NAVALNAYA, My husband will never see what the beautiful Russia of the future will look like. But we must see it. And I will do my best to make his dream come true. The evil will fall and the beautiful future will come. Thank you.