A video documents the moment his body was taken

A video document has circulated on the Internet over the past few hours, depicting the moment in which a procession leaves the “Polar Wolf” prison in the dark of night, carrying the body of Alexei Navalny.

It is noteworthy that for the third day in a row, Alexei Navalny's family, specifically his mother, was prevented from accessing his body.

The video shows a prison truck believed to be carrying Alexei Navalny's body. There were no distinctive marks on one of the cars, and it may have been accompanied by the Russian Federal Security Service. The procession started from the prison of Putin's cruel regime, where Navalny was imprisoned, where the temperature was 30 degrees Celsius below zero on the day of his death.

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The body of murdered opposition politician Alexei Navalny has not yet been handed over to his relatives. Cause of death “not determined”

Russia's Investigative Committee has told his mother and lawyers that the investigation into Navalny's death has been drawn out. pic.twitter.com/zMgMmMZ3rz

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Navalny (47 years old) is considered almost certain by Western supporters and experts alike to have been assassinated by Vladimir Putin's regime before the Russian presidential elections scheduled for next month.

Navalny's mother, Lyudmila, 69, and his lawyer arrived at the prison on Saturday morning seeking to receive the body, but staff refused.

The late dissident's team announced this morning that Lyudmila was prevented from accessing her son's body again, three days after his death, because the investigation into his death had “expanded.”

“It is not known how long it will last. The cause of death remains 'undetermined.'” “They are lying, they are playing with time, and they are not even hiding it,” spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh told X.

Meanwhile, Ivan Zhdanov, head of Navalny's anti-corruption campaign, described Russian prison authorities as “liars and immoral henchmen” of Vladimir Putin, accusing them of playing for time to cover up evidence of Navalny's murder.