Leonid Volkov, a top aide to jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, spoke to FRANCE 24 from the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on Tuesday. He expressed concern about the safety of his boss, who was recently sentenced to nine more years in prison, saying that the world “should keep an eye on him”.
Volkov went on to say that when Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to go to war in Ukraine he actually "shortened his years in power" – and since Navalny is Putin’s "personal prisoner”, he also “shortened Nalvany’s prison term”.