Putin did not order Navalny’s death, US intelligence says, the Wall Street Journal reveals.
The relevant publication wants the intelligence services of the United States to have concluded that Vladimir Putin did not assassinate Alexei Navalny. According to the Wall Street Journal, US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin he probably didn’t order the murder of dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in February in a prison in the Arctic Circle.
The Wall Street Journal in its article, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the case, says that US intelligence agencies have concluded that Putin probably did not order Navalny’s murderdespite what Navalny’s supporters say.
The paper stresses that Washington has not absolved the Russian president of all responsibility for his death, as the dissident had been a target of Russian authorities for years, had been imprisoned for what the West has described as politically motivated offenses and was poisoned in 2020 with a nerve agent. factor. The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the 2020 poisoning of Navalny.
The sources cited by the Wall Street Journal said that tthe conclusion of Putin’s non-involvement in Navalny’s death “is widely accepted by the Intelligence community and has been adopted by many agencies – among them the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the State Department’s intelligence agency.”
The US assessment is based on various information, including classified information, and analysis of events, such as the timing of Navalny’s death and how the event overshadowed Putin’s re-election to the Russian presidency in March.
However, according to the newspaper, Leonid Volkov, an associate of Navalny, called the American findings naive and ridiculous.
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Navalny, 47, has been Putin’s most vocal critic. His associates have accused Putin of asking for his assassination and have added that they will present evidence to support their claim.
The Kremlin has denied that Russian authorities had anything to do with the dissident’s death. In March Putin called Navalny’s death “sad” and noted that Moscow was ready to hand him over to the West in a prisoner exchangeon the condition that the dissident would not return to Russia.
With information from APE-MPE-Reuters
