The US prepares new sanctions against Russia in the case of Alexei Navalny

The US prepares new sanctions against Russia in the case of Alexei Navalny

MiamiMundo / Diario las Americas

The United States is getting ready new sanctions against Moscow for the imprisonment of Russian opposition Alexei Navalny, White Home Nationwide Safety Advisor Jake Sullivan stated on Sunday.

“We’re getting ready one other collection of sanctions to use in this case,” he instructed CNN 4 days after the summit in Geneva between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Alexei Navalny, head of the fundamental Russian opposition occasion, was transferred in a coma to a Berlin hospital in August 2020 following a poisoning in Russia that he attributes to the Kremlin.

He spent practically six months recovering in Germany and was arrested in January upon returning to Russia. Since then he has been imprisoned and Washington is demanding his launch.

“We’ve already sanctioned Russia for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny,” Sullivan recalled. “We didn’t do it alone, we rallied our allies in a collective effort to sanction the use of a chemical agent against one of its residents on Russian soil.”

On March 2, just a few days after Navalny’s incarceration in a jail east of Moscow, Washington utilized sanctions to seven senior Russian officers, the first sanctions taken against Russia underneath Biden’s tenure, which started on January 20.

Simply earlier than the Russian-American summit in Geneva on June 16, Biden stated that Navalny’s demise “would solely deteriorate (Moscow’s) relations with the relaxation of the world.” “And with me,” he confused.

Throughout their assembly, Biden and Putin confirmed willingness to ease tensions, though they made no concrete bulletins.

On Navalny’s destiny, Putin restricted himself to saying that “this man knew that he was violating the regulation in drive in Russia.”