The United States approved a package of “major sanctions” against Moscow on Friday following the death in prison of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, the White House announced on Tuesday, AFP reported.
“At President Biden’s initiative, we will announce a series of major sanctions on Friday to hold Russia accountable for what happened to Navalny,” said John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
Kirby said these new sanctions are also in response to “all of (Moscow’s) actions that are part of this brutal and brutal war that has been going on for two years” in Ukraine.
The death of 47-year-old Alexei Navalny in a remote prison in the Arctic, where he was serving a 19-year sentence after surviving a poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin in 2020, Russian media reported on Friday. authorities Navalny died after three years in prison.
According to John Kirby, “whatever story the Russian government chooses to tell the world, it is clear that President Putin and his government are responsible.”
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