An activist claims Navalny might have been killed with a single punch to coronary heart.

New Delhi:

Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny might have been killed with a single punch to the guts – an outdated technique utilized by the KGB – a human rights activist has claimed. This comes even because the Russian officers are but to launch Navalny’s physique who died all of the sudden per week in the past within the Arctic penal colony the place he had been serving sentences totalling greater than 30 years.

“It is an old method of the KGB’s special forces divisions,” Vladimir Osechkin, founding father of the human rights group Gulagu.internet, instructed the Times of London citing a supply on the penal colony.

“They trained their operatives to kill a man with one punch in the heart, in the center of the body. It was a hallmark of the KGB,” Osechkin stated.

KGB was much-feared Soviet-era inside safety service. It was formally dissolved on December 3, 1991. It was later succeeded in Russia by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and what would later develop into the Federal Security Service (FSB).

He claimed that forward of the deadly strike, the 47-year-old had been saved outside for hours within the harsh, subzero temperatures to weaken his physique.

“I think that they first destroyed his body by keeping him out in the cold for a long time and slowing the blood circulation down to a minimum,” Osechkin stated, citinig an unidentified supply working on the jail. “And then it becomes very easy to kill someone, within seconds, if the operative has some experience in this.”

As per a report, the physique of Vladimir Putin’s most vociferous critic had “signs of bruises”, an anonymours paramedic instructed an impartial information outlet.

The paramedic stated the our bodies of those that die in jail are normally taken straight to the Foreign Medicine Bureau, “but his body was taken to a clinical hospital for some reason.” The “bruises” on his physique resembled marks that one suffers when being held down throughout a seizure, he added.

Alexei Navalny’s crew has claimed that Russian authorities have instructed his mom he could be buried within the penal colony until she agreed to put him to relaxation with no public funeral.

Navalny’s mom Lyudmila has been demanding for days that authorities hand over his physique to be buried in a manner that can enable his mates, household and supporters to pay their respects.

Navalny’s household and supporters have accused Putin of getting him killed, an accusation that the Kremlin has angrily rejected. He had survived a poisoning try in 2020 and years of harsh therapy in jail, together with lengthy spells in solitary confinement.

Putin, who by no means talked about Navalny in his speeches, has not but commented on his demise.

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Navalny, has launched a six-minute video on Saturday and demanded that Russian authorities launch his physique for burial and accused a “demonic” Putin of “torturing” his corpse.

According to Russian officers, Navalny “fely unwell after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness”. “All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out, which did not give positive results. Doctors of the ambulance stated the death of the convict. The causes of death are being established,” they claimed.

His mom was given a discover of the demise that had 2.17 pm native time (2.37 pm IST) on February 16. She was instructed the reason for his demise was “sudden death syndrome”.

“Sudden death syndrome” is a obscure time period for various cardiac syndromes that trigger sudden cardiac arrest and demise.