President Joe Biden met with Alexei Navalny’s widow and daughter in California and promised major new sanctions against Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime.
The president saw Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya in San Francisco and expressed condolences over the death of Putin’s top critic and opposition leader last week in a Siberian penal colony.
He hugged Yulia and promised that her late husband’s legacy would live on as Moscow stepped up its threats of nuclear strikes on the West.
“The President expressed his admiration for Alexei Navalny’s extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to all,” the White House said.
They met when Navalny’s other Lyudmila Navalnaya revealed that she had been taken to a secret morgue to see her son’s body.
She demanded that Kremlin officials “give over my son’s body immediately” after investigators tried to “blackmail” her into holding a “secret” funeral.
President Joe Biden met with Alexei Navalny’s widow and daughter in California and promised major new sanctions against Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime
The president hugs Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya in San Francisco
Biden called Putin an “SOB” in a campaign speech to a small group of supporters on Wednesday evening.
He also condemned his predecessor Donald Trump for comparing his legal troubles to Navalny’s plight.
His government plans to issue a new round of sanctions on Friday as fears grow that Putin will plant a nuclear weapon in space.
Putin spent part of Thursday taunting the West with a joyride in a modernized supersonic strategic nuclear bomber Tu-160M.
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