Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Friday urged Russians to keep resisting the Kremlin after a Russian court sentenced him to 19 years in prison in a new trial.
tight-lipped about how much success they can have. and they know that it took the russians months to fight through bakhmut. they don t believe themselves that they necessarily want to take the whole city back. will they go around it? is this part of the bigger counteroffensive? at the moment we don t know. the bit we do know, that fight in and around bakhmut is underway tonight. all right, nic, thank you very much. just incredibl you walking there, see those trenches. i want to bring in a longtime putin critic who is wanted in russia, was once the country s largest foreign investor. also the author of freezing order. so, bill, it s good to see you again. you hear yevgeny prigozhin, the front line is failing, the flanks are crumbling. the russians are admitting that they have lost ground near bakhmut. what do you think this is going to putin s mindset right now, that these admissions are actually happening? i think putin must be sitting
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that he was facing new extremism and terrorism charges that could keep him behind bars for life.
say navalny has now learned he will also be charged with terrorism. now, he will have two large trials. first, on extremism in total for all episodes up to 30 years, most likely it would begin before the end of may. then on terrorism, up to 35 years. navalny s health is also deteriorating, in part because he s limited in the amount of food he can get in prison. his daughter told that to cnn. the situation has gotten so ridiculous, that he buys the food, which is, you know, oats. it s not any luxuries. the oats are brought to him, shown to him, and then are just destroyed. reporter: supporters say it s all part of a massive crackdown against the opposition figure and his anti-corruption foundation, which has been banned and declared an extremist organization in russia they believe at the behest of russian president vladamir putin. navalny has called on russians to protest putin s invasion of
crimea. and that s perhaps what the russians are reacting to. it s not clear. we talked to a lot of ukrainian officials here, military intelligence, foreign ministry diplomats. no one is giving any clues about where that potential offensive might come. but the russians seem to be giving clues about where they think it might come. it might be along the southern coast. nick robertson, reporting from kyiv. thank you very much. in russia, the jailed putin critic, alexei navalny, is potentially facing decades of additional prison time, as prosecutors unveiled new charges, accusing him of terrorism and extremism. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is joining us with new information. fred, what can you tell us about these new accusations against navalny? reporter: these terrorism accusations certainly is something that seems to have caught alexei navalny by surprise. he had a hearing today, which