Biden hugs Alexei Navalny's widow and vows sanctions against Russia | I5PK05B | 2024-02-24 11:08:01
President Joe Biden met with the late Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny's widow and daughter and has vowed new sanctions towards Russia.
Biden on Thursday afternoon shared pictures of himself hugging Navaly's wife, Yulia Navalnaya, and sitting in a room between her and Navalny's daughter, Dasha Navalnaya.
'Immediately, I met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya – Aleksey Navalny's family members – to precise my condolences for their devastating loss,' wrote Biden on X (Twitter).
'Aleksey's legacy of braveness will stay on in Yulia and Dasha, and the countless individuals across Russia preventing for democracy and human rights.'
The White House stated that Biden met with Yulia and Dasha in San Francisco 'to precise his heartfelt condolences for his or her terrible loss following the demise of Aleksey Navalny in a Russian jail'.
Biden 'expressed his admiration for Aleksey Navalny's extraordinary courage and his legacy of preventing towards corruption and for a free and democratic Russia by which the rule of regulation applies equally to everyone', the White Home said.
The US president 'emphasized that Aleksey's legacy will keep it up via individuals throughout Russia and around the globe mourning his loss and preventing for freedom, democracy, and human rights', continued the White Home.
Biden also affirmed that he would announce 'major new sanctions' towards Russia on Friday in response to Navalny's demise and for the Kremlin's repression and conflict on Ukraine.
Nationwide Safety Council spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday had stated that a new sanctions package deal can be unveiled, however at the time did not present particulars.
The meeting was disclosed hours after Navalny's spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, stated that his mom was knowledgeable of his cause of death.
'The medical report on demise proven to the mother of Alexei Navalny said that the causes of dying have been pure," Yarmysh wrote in Russian on X (Twitter).
Russia's Federal Jail Service had said that Navalny felt unwell after a walk and lost consciousness on Friday.
Yulia in a video statement on X (Twitter) days earlier blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for her husband's demise.
'Three days in the past, Vladimir Putin killed my husband Alexei Navalny,' stated Yulia.
'Putin killed the daddy of my youngsters. Putin took away probably the most valuable thing I had – my most pricey and probably the most beloved man…
'Putin didn't just kill a person referred to as Alexei Navalny. Along with him, Putin needed to kill our hopes, our freedom, our future. To destroy and nullify it.'
Biden on Friday said that he was 'literally both not surprised and outraged' over Navalny's dying and that there was 'little question' that Putin was responsible.
Shortly after Biden's meeting with Navlny's family members, about 30 Gaza protesters broke into the Fairmont San Francisco lodge where they held the meeting demanding a 'ceasefire now' within the Israel-Hamas conflict.
'Biden, Biden, you'll be able to't cover. We charge you with genocide,' they chanted within the lodge because the president was as a consequence of depart.
The US's sanctions to be announced on Friday would come every week after Navalny's dying and on the second anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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