Ukraine war briefing: Navalny widow blasts UN chief Guterres for meeting ‘murderer’ Putin

António Guterres, the UN secretary general, shakes hands with Vladimir Putin after travelling to Russia to meet with the Russian president, who is wanted by the international criminal court on a warrant over his war against Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AP

• The Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya has slammed the UN secretary general, António Guterres, for meeting Vladimir Putin. “It was the third year of the war, and the UN secretary general was shaking hands with a murderer,” Navalnaya said on X, posting a photo of Putin greeting Guterres. Navalnaya is the widow of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figurehead who died as a Russian political prisoner in February.

It was the third year of the war, and the UN Secretary-General was shaking hands with a murderer pic.twitter.com/BpjsThSKsw

— Yulia Navalnaya (@yulia_navalnaya) October 24, 2024