This is how Vice President of the United State (US), Kamala Harris, and Secretary of State of the US, Antony Blinken, reacted to the news of the death of Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny.
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Alexey Navalny died in the Arctic Prison colony where he was serving his 19-year sentence.
Kremlin reveals, President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has been informed of the death of Navalny.
Kamala Harris and Antony Blinken react to Navalny’s death (aljazeera.com):
US Vice President Kamala Harris has said Navalny’s death, if confirmed, would be “a further sign of Putin’s brutality”.
“Let us be clear, Russia is responsible,” she said at the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany.
Speaking before Harris, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that if reports of Navalny’s death are accurate, they underscore Russia’s “weakness and rot.”
“His death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built,” Blinken said on the sidelines of the conference. “Russia is responsible for this.”
White House national security Jake Sullivan told broadcaster NPR that Washington was working to confirm the death.
