CNN
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Dasha Navalnaya, the daughter of jailed Russian dissident Alexey Navalny, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine and to release her father and political prisoners in the country.
“We will not stop fighting” unless “this incredibly unnecessary and terrible invasion of Ukraine” ends, she told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Friday.
Her father Navalny – an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and its war in Ukraine – is currently serving a nine-year jail term at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow after being convicted of large-scale fraud by a Russian court last year.
She also described concerns about her father’s prison conditions, saying that her family has had limited access to Navalny and that his attorneys are only able to see him “through a guarded veil.”
“So we can’t really know for sure his health…
