‘Will ensure Vladimir Putin pays steeper price for…’: Joe Biden slaps 500 sanctions on Russia over Alexei Navalny death
Also Read: Elon Musk stirs Ukraine pot again, says US should use funds for infra projects instead The sanctions will target people linked to Navalny's imprisonment and Russia's war machine, said President Biden. The fresh tranche of curbs against Russia has come on the second anniversary of the Ukraine invasion and has been described by the Treasury Department as the largest single tranche since the start of the war.
Also Read: ‘India thinks US is weak, so strategically remains aligned with Russia’: Nikki Haley Apart from targetting individuals linked to Navalny's imprisonment, Washington's fresh set of sanctions on the Kremlin is likely to focus on its financial sector, defence industrial base, procurement networks and sanctions evaders across multiple continents, Joe Biden said. "They will ensure Putin pays an even steeper price for his aggression abroad and repression at home," the US president said in a statement.
Also Read: 'President Joe Biden is not running the United States... just a facade', claims Russian President Vladimir Putin "We are also imposing new export restrictions on nearly 100 entities for providing backdoor support for Russia's war machine," he stated.
Biden declared emphatically that he considers Putin responsible for the death of Navalny, 47, who barely survived a 2020 poisoning he blamed on government agents. Biden further revealed that he had met Navalny's widow and daughter privately in California.
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