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and us presidentjoe biden has said that putin is to blame. navalny s widow yulia, is due to address european foreign ministers in brussels today, on the invitation of the eu s foreign policy chiefjoseph borrell. the bbc s chief international correspondent lyse doucet spoke with him about the significance of the invitation, and the wider concerns around russia and ukraine. it is a way of, first, honouring navalny. secondly, to express our deep sorry for this death and third, and maybe the most important thing, is to provide a voice to the russian opposition. because in russia, there are people who want to live in freedom as you and me and these people have been fighting, together with navalny. and many which are anonymous has also been sent to jail and may be dead and these people deserve support. that was joseph borrell. let s speak to our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. the suggestion is that some kind of investigation is taking place and that that has been
kill our people, our freedom, the person, with him he wanted to kill our people, ourfreedom, our future. we will have more on exactly what she said in just a moment. she will actually be meeting eu foreign ministers in brussels and we have more on that too. alexei navalny was being held in prison north of russia and the latest we have from his mother and lawyers, in trying to see the body of this location, a morgue near the prison, have been trying and been denied for the last three days to see the body. a family representative posted this message on social media. we can start to get some reaction from the russian government. they were asked about the death and they say an investigation is under way. they also said the reaction of the west was unacceptable. we will get more on that in a moment. let s return to the eu. eu ministers are meeting potentially asking for new sanctions against russia. we wait to see on that. their top diplomat josep borrell told the bbc a message of
to fight for a free russia. she said her husband was killed because the russian president vladimir putin couldn t break him. translation: another person should l be here in my place but that person l was killed by vladimir putin. we know exactly why putin killed alexei three days ago. we will tell you soon. but the most important thing we can do for alexei and for ourselves is to go on fighting. i will continue alexei s work. alexei navalny died in this prison camp in the arctic circle. prison authorities say he suffered sudden death syndrome. the kremlin has denied involvement in his death, calling the accusations frankly obnoxious . it says there are no results yet in the investigation into the death. earlier, mr navalny s mother was blocked from entering a mortuary where his body was believed to be. today yulia navalnaya is in brussels meeting with eu foreign ministers. the eu s foreign policy chief says they are considering new punishments against those responsible for m
alexei, russia is not putin, put in is not rush, we will continue russia s civil society and independent media. putin is not russia. she released this message in russian and will hear at all any moment. i willjust say one liner she said here. she said, we know exactly why putin killed alexei killed putin three days ago, we will tell you soon. let s get the latest from russia itself. alexei navalny s mother and legal team are at the prison where he was being held and released a statement. his mother and lawyers arrived at the morgue earlier in the morning and were not allowed to go in. one of the lawyers was literally pushed out. when the staff was asked if alexei because nobody was there. we will get a further update from moscow a bit later. there has also been reaction from the kremlin. we will bring you that any moment. first, let s take a listen to alexei navalny s widow yulia in that social media post. translation: three days ago, vladimir putin killed my - husband, a