Navalny aide: no confirmation of Navalny's death

An aide to jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on the X social media platform on Friday that he was unable to confirm his death, reported by the Russian prison service earlier.

"Russian authorities publish a confession that they killed Alexei Navalny in prison. We do not have any way to confirm it or to prove this isn't true," Leonid Volkov wrote.

Navalny's lawyer was travelling to the site of the prison where he had been serving his sentence, Volkov added.