Navalny's wife to attend EU foreign affairs council on Monday, Borrell says
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FILE PHOTO: Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference (MSC), on the day it was announced that Alexei Navalny is dead, by the prison service of the Yamalo-Nenets region where he had been serving his sentence, in Munich, Germany February 16, 2024. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/Pool/FILE PHOTO
BRUSSELS - The wife of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony on Friday, will attend the European Union foreign affairs council on Monday, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Sunday.
"On Monday, I will welcome Yulia Navalnaya at the EU Foreign Affairs Council. EU Ministers will send a strong message of support to freedom fighters in Russia and honour the memory of Alexi @navalny," Borrell said in a statement on X. REUTERS
