By Steve Holland and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions to punish Russia for what it described as Moscow s attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent last year, in President Joe Biden s most direct challenge yet to the Kremlin. The sanctions against seven senior Russian officials, among them the head of its FSB security service, and on 14 entities marked a sharp departure from former President Donald Trump s reluctance to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden stopped short, however, of putting sanctions on Putin himself. Navalny, 44, fell ill on a flight in Siberia in August and was airlifted to Germany, where doctors concluded he had been poisoned with a nerve agent. The Kremlin has denied any role in his illness and said it had seen no proof he was poisoned. Navalny was arrested in January on his return from Germany following treatment for poisoning with what many Western countries say was a mili
US, EU impose sanctions on Russia for Navalny poisoning, jailing
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US slaps sanctions on 7 Russian officials over attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny
Navalny, 44, was sickened by the Russian nerve agent Novichok in an attack that the US and others linked to Putin s security services.
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Washington: The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on seven senior Russian officials over the attempted assassination of opposition leader Alexei Navalny using a nerve agent, and his subsequent jailing.
The sanctions are the first announced by the Joe Biden administration against associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The US intelligence community assesses with high confidence that officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service used a nerve agent to poison the opposition leader on August 20, 2020, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.