Russia-Ukraine war: US sanctions three Russian officials over Alexei Navalny’s death – as it happened
US sanctions three Russian officials over Alexei Navalny’s death
The US has sanctioned three Russian officials over last week’s death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Agence France-Presse reports.
The individuals sanctioned include Valery Boyarinev, the deputy director of the Russia’s federal penitentiary service, which oversaw Polar Wolf, the penal colony where Navalny suddenly died last week.
“Following Navalny’s death, Boyarinev was promoted to ‘colonel general’ by decree of Vladimir Putin,” the state department said, AFP reports.
The other two sanctioned individuals are officials administering the penal colony.
The sanctions come as part of Joe Biden’s broader sanctions against Russia which he announced on Friday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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