According to the US, Putin would not have ordered Navalny’s death – DW – 04/28/2024

This Saturday (04/27/2024), according to American media reports, United States government intelligence agencies came to the conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” did not order the death of Russian rival Alexei Navalny.

However, US officials have not been able to clarify the cause of Navalny’s death last February, the media reported.

According to The Wall Street Journal, in a report distributed among various agencies of the United States government, Putin is not exempted from guilt, but it is said that he was not the one who directly ordered the end of a rival’s life. Was .

President Joe Biden directly blamed Putin for Navalny’s death and his government imposed multiple sanctions on Russia in retaliation.

At a press conference the president was asked whether he thought the Russian rival’s death was a “murder”, to which he replied: “We don’t know exactly what happened, but there is no doubt that Navalny’s death.” is the result of something that Putin and his thugs did.”

According to Russian prison services, Navalny, 47, died after feeling unwell after a walk in the prison where he was being held and, although medical services tried to revive him “for more than half an hour” , but in the end he lost his life. life.

In December last year, Navalny was transferred from a prison in the Vladimir region, less than 200 kilometers from Moscow, to a prison in Zarp, in the Arctic Circle near the Ural mountain range.

Navalny survived an attempt to poison him with the chemical agent Novichok in 2020 and his health became a cause of increasing concern after he went on a hunger strike between March and April 2021, in which he lost a lot of weight.

GS (EFE, The Wall Street Journal)