The US on Tuesday slapped sanctions on Russian individuals and entities over the near-fatal poisoning of prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent, Biden administration officials said. Speaking to reporters on a conference call, the senior White House officials said the sanctions were being imposed in coordination with the European Union, and urged the release of Navalny from prison. What we know so far The EU imposed bans on travel and froze the assets in Europe of Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Igor Krasnov, the prosecuto general, Viktor Zolotov, head of the National Guard, and Alexander Kalashnikov, head of the Federal Prison Service Senior White House administration officials did not immediately identify the Russian officials named in the sanctions Biden officials also announced sanctions under the US Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act for 13 companies and another enterprise, most of which it said were involved in production of biological and chemical agents What did EU and US officials say? Brussels said Bastrykin, Krasnov, Zolotov and Kalashnikov were listed “over their roles in A senior US official has stated: “The intelligence community assesses with high confidence that officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service FSB used a nerve agent known as Novichok… Read full this story
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