The states are promising a new crushing package of sanctions in the coming days. Some of them will be directed against those responsible for Navalny’s death.
The United States will impose hundreds of sanctions on Russia in a new package to be announced on the second anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This is what US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said, Reuters reports.
Nuland emphasized that some of the sanctions will be directed against those responsible for the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but most of them will hit the military machine of Russian President Vladimir Putin and close the gaps in existing penal regimes.
President Joe Biden, without giving details, said on Tuesday that Washington would announce a major package of sanctions against Russia on Friday.
“We are preparing a devastating new package of sanctions, hundreds and hundreds of sanctions in the next few days… and some of them will be aimed at people directly involved in Navalny’s death,” Nuland said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Affairs think tank. Research” in Washington.
According to him, most of them aim to further weaken Putin in order to close the gaps in the sanctions regime that he managed to avoid.
At the same time, Nuland predicted further increases in sanctions.
We remind you that on Thursday Biden met with the widow of the Russian opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya.
Earlier, Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a “crazy son of a bitch.”
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