Russian prison service have announced the death of Alexei Navalny

The news broke at 11:45am GMT that the Russian prison service had announced the death of Alexei Navalny. 

According to reports a statement was released saying he had "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday and had "almost immediately lost consciousness". It added that an emergency medical team had immediately been called and tried to resuscitate him but without success.

"The emergency doctors declared the prisoner dead. Cause of death is being established."

Navalny's spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said that they don't have any confirmation of his death yet. In a post on X Kira wrote "The Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamalo-Nenets District is disseminating news about the death of Alexei Navalny in IK-3. We don't have any confirmation of this yet." Navalny's lawyer is flying to Siberia and his team will report more information when they have it.