The imprisoned head of the Russian opposition claimed that Vladimir Putin played the same speech to him every day.
Alexei Navalny is presently serving an 11-year term for a number of offences in a maximum-security facility more than 100 miles outside of Moscow.
The 47-year-old alleged in a Facebook post that he had been subjected to the identical speech from jail officials for 100 days running.
Are you people crazy, he purportedly questioned. Why don’t you at least do a variety of speeches? Putin has certainly produced a lot of them.
But the prison officer’s response was that it is ‘a morale-building activity’.
Mr Navalny recently revealed he faces being tried for terrorism charges, which carry a life sentence of 30 years.
He is an outspoken critic of Putin’s and has called the invasion of Ukraine ‘stupid’, claiming it is ‘built on lies’.
Mr Navalny was arrested in January 2021 after returning to Russia from Germany, where he had been recovering from being poisoned with a nerve agent.
Supporters of the opposition leader say the Kremlin is trying to ‘break and silence’ Mr Navalny.
They have accused prison authorities of failing to provide him with proper medical assistance, using blindingly bright light in his cell.
He has filed numerous complaints against the IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo, where he is imprisoned, but these have been rejected.
Today Russia has warned of ‘catastrophic consequences’ for Europe if the war in Ukraine is escalated.
Nato leaders are preparing to deliver a ‘positive message’ to Kyiv over its future prospects for joining the military alliance.
But the Kremlin warned if Ukraine were to join the alliance, Moscow would react clearly and firmly.