US President Joe Biden on Thursday met the spouse and daughter of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition chief who died final week in a jail camp, and known as him “a person of unimaginable braveness”.
Biden, chatting with reporters in California, reiterated that Washington plans to impose a big selection of sanctions on Russia and its chief Vladimir Putin following Navalny’s dying.
Navalny, 47, fell unconscious and died out of the blue on Friday after a stroll on the “Polar Wolf” penal colony above the Arctic Circle the place he was serving a three-decade sentence, the jail service stated.
“He was a person of unimaginable braveness, and it is wonderful how his spouse and daughter are emulating that,” Biden stated after assembly Navalny’s spouse Yulia and daughter Dasha.
“I do know that we’ll be asserting the sanctions towards Putin, who’s liable for his dying, tomorrow.”
Underneath Secretary of State Victoria Nuland stated on Thursday that among the “tons of and tons of and tons of” of sanctions to be unveiled within the coming days would goal these liable for Navalny’s dying, however most would hit “Putin’s struggle machine” and shut gaps in current sanctions regimes.
The brand new measures are timed to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In a press release launched earlier than Biden spoke to reporters, the White Home stated the president conveyed his “heartfelt condolences” to Navalny’s household.
In the course of the assembly in California, he expressed his admiration for Navalny’s “extraordinary braveness and his legacy of combating towards corruption and for a free and democratic Russia by which the rule of regulation applies equally to everybody”, the White Home stated.
