Yulia Navalny, the widow of dissident Oleksii Navalny, said in a video message published on Monday that she wants to continue his work and fight for a free Russia, Reuters reports.

“I want to live in a free Russia, I want to build a free Russia,” she said in a video message entitled “I will continue the case of Alexei Navalny.” “Vladimir Putin killed my husband,” she said, adding that she would continue to work with the Russian people to build a new Russia.

On Monday, Navalny’s relatives reported that the Russian authorities have not yet allowed them to see his lifeless body.

“Aleksii (Navalny)’s mother and his lawyers arrived at the morgue (on Monday) morning. They were not allowed to enter. One of the lawyers was literally pushed out. When I asked the employees if the body was there, they did not answer,” former dissident Kira Yarmish’s press secretary said on social media.

Last Friday, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service announced that Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent, had died at the age of 47 in a prison in Siberia, where he had been transferred last December.

His death sparked a wave of reactions from world leaders, some of whom condemned yet another crime by Vladimir Putin’s regime.

The Kremlin is talking about a “disgusting” reaction to Navalny’s death

However, on Monday, the Kremlin rejected this reaction, calling some comments by the leaders of some Western states “absolutely unacceptable”.

“We consider such statements absolutely unacceptable. Well, frankly, they’re unpleasant. These statements, of course, will not affect our head of state,” Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov said on Monday.

When asked how Putin reacted to the news of Navalny’s death, Peskov said: “I have nothing to add.”

European Union member states are expected to discuss new sanctions against Moscow following the death of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Monday ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

“We must send a message of support to the Russian opposition. Therefore, on both fronts, political and military, we must continue to support Ukraine and the Russian people who want to live in freedom,” said the head of EU diplomacy.

In turn, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock on Monday in Brussels expressed hope that the European Union will soon make a decision on the 13th package of sanctions against Russia, adding that it will take into account the death of Alexei Navalny.