Alexei Navalny spent months recovering from the close to deadly poisoning. (File)
Washington:
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on seven senior Russians because it mentioned its intelligence concluded that Moscow was behind the poisoning of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
“The intelligence community assesses with high confidence that officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service FSB used a nerve agent known as Novichok to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on August 20, 2020,” a senior US official mentioned.
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