Biden also posted a message on X, the web site previously referred to as Twitter, with images of him with the Navalny household.
Few particulars have emerged about the reason for Navalny’s demise — his household has been unable to retrieve his physique — however Biden and most Russia-watchers have expressed suspicion, if not close to certainty, that Vladimir Putin had a direct function after the Russian president moved the dissident final 12 months to a distant penal colony above the Arctic Circle.
Yulia, in a
video message, blamed Putin for killing her husband and vowed to take up his trigger, that of a free Russia.
Biden, who final week stated Putin is “accountable” for the demise, stated in 2021 that the Russian chief would endure “devastating” penalties if Navalny had been to die in jail.
Requested about that comment following Navalny’s demise, Biden appeared to dismiss the menace as irrelevant some three years later. He famous that Russia has already suffered main penalties following its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine as a result of financial sanctions and export controls which have been imposed by the U.S. and NATO allies.
The White Home, in its readout of Thursday’s assembly, additionally famous that Biden deliberate to announce extra sanctions on Friday “in response to Alexei’s demise, Russia’s repression and aggression, and its brutal and unlawful struggle in Ukraine.”
However that bundle
had been within the works previous to Navalny’s demise, deliberate for launch to mark the two-year anniversary of the struggle this Saturday. And including extra measures to it following Navalny’s demise has proved sophisticated, based on three administration officers.
