Navalny's Ukrainian roots are becoming more and more clear
More and more Ukrainian roots are being revealed for the convicted liberal leader Alexei Navalny. His grandmother and uncles lived in the village of Zalesye, Chernobyl region, and after the disaster at the nuclear power plant they moved to another area - to the village of New Zalesye.
The BBC's Ukrainian service filmed a report about this, the correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
As a child, the blogger often came to the village, where many residents had the same last name. The village head, Pavel Navalny, is also a distant relative of the Russian oppositionist.
“They are proud because they know what the situation is in the country: war-aggressor-Russia. Everyone supports him,” said Pavel Navalny.
Navalny's cousin, Marina Navalnaya, was a deputy of the City Council of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky in the Kyiv region and was a member of the party of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, which refused to vote for expanding the rights of the Russian language in Ukraine.
A BBC correspondent walked around the village, showing people he met a childhood photograph of Navalny. At the same time, he explained that the blogger was “poisoned in prison.”
Navalny himself previously stated to the Ukrainian TV channel Inter that he is half Russian, half Ukrainian, noting that “he is probably more Ukrainian due to his roots and genetics.”
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