Pro-democracy group leader Andrei Pivovarov, 41, is in isolation at Penal Colony Seven, as part of a four-year sentence for "undesirable" organisation.Īlexei Gorinov, 61, a member of a Moscow municipal council who criticised the war, is serving seven years in Penal Colony Two for "spreading false information".Īrtist and musician Sasha Skochilenko, 32, has been detained for a year while on trial on suspicion of spreading false information by replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and faces up to 10 years if convicted. Memorial, Russia's oldest human rights organization, counted 558 political prisoners as of April - more than three times the 183 listed five years ago. Mr Navalny is Russia's most famous political prisoner, but there are a growing number of them serving time in similarly harsh conditions. He is on trial facing further charges which could add decades to his sentence. The critic of the president is serving a nine-year term in a penal colony east of Moscow on charges widely seen as trumped up. He is more likely to be forced to listen to patriotic songs and speeches by Vladimir Putin in his 2-by-3-meter isolation cell. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is spending his 47th birthday in a concrete cell with hardly any natural light, barred from talking to any of his loved ones.
He will want the plans to be 100% right, whereas the harsh reality of warfare is 90% is often good enough, and you've just got to trust your people."
Little wonder that he's taking a while to make the decision to go."īell added: "He has been an outstanding leader. "This is a make-or-break decision for Ukraine and there's a massive burden on his shoulders. Yet if he doesn't get this right, Russia could "inflict huge casualties" on Ukraine and mount their own counterattack, undermining Western confidence and effectively marking "the end of Ukraine as we know it", the analyst said. He compared the decision with Winston Churchill's, who on the eve of D-Day told his wife that by dinner the next night 20,000 lives could be lost as a result of his judgment call.Ĭhurchill found it difficult to make the call after decades of experience, while Mr Zelenskyy has been a politician for just three years, said Bell. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterday that Ukraine was ready to launch its counteroffensive - a statement regular readers may have been waiting to hear for many months.īut with responsibility for thousands of soldiers' lives and the existence of Ukraine as we know it, his caution is unsurprising, said military analyst Sean Bell.
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