Last month, Putin known as Navalny’s demise “sad” and mentioned he had been prepared at hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner change offered Navalny by no means returned to Russia.
US intelligence agencies have decided that Russian President Vladimir Putin in all probability did not order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic jail camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Navalny, 47 when he died, was Putin’s fiercest home critic. His allies, branded extremists by the authorities, accused Putin of getting him murdered and have mentioned they may present proof to again their allegation.
The Kremlin has denied any state involvement. Last month, Putin known as Navalny’s demise “sad” and mentioned he had been prepared at hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner change offered Navalny by no means returned to Russia. Navalny’s allies mentioned such talks had been underway.
The Journal, citing unnamed folks conversant in the matter, mentioned on Saturday that US intelligence agencies had concluded that Putin in all probability did not order Navalny to be killed in February.
It mentioned Washington had not absolved the Russian chief of total accountability for Navalny’s demise nevertheless, given the opposition politician had been focused by Russian authorities for years, jailed on expenses the West mentioned had been politically motivated, and had been poisoned in 2020 with a nerve agent. The Kremlin denies state involvement within the 2020 poisoning.
Reuters may not independently confirm the Journal report, which cited sources as saying the discovering had been “broadly accepted within the intelligence community and shared by several agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the State Department’s intelligence unit.”
The US evaluation was primarily based on a variety of data, together with some categorized intelligence, and an evaluation of public information, together with the timing of Navalny’s demise and the way it overshadowed Putin’s re-election in March, the paper cited a few of its sources as saying.
It cited Leonid Volkov, a senior Navalny aide, as calling the US findings naive and ridiculous.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA employees and is printed from Reuters)
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