United States President Joe Biden said on Monday that he was “considering” additional sanctions against his counterpart Vladimir Putin’s Russia, three days after the death of opponent Alexeï Navalny.
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“We already have sanctions but we are in the process of considering additional ones, yes,” responded to journalists the democratic leader who has already judged President Putin “responsible” for the death of Navalny announced Friday in a prison in the Arctic.
The United States and the European Union have already applied a battery of sanctions against Moscow since the outbreak of war following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
And President Biden indicated on Saturday that he had told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky of his “confidence” in the continuation of American military aid to Kyiv, currently blocked by the House of Representatives of Congress.
The Senate, with a Democratic majority, approved a new package including $60 billion in military assistance for Ukraine, which is desperately demanding it from the United States and its Western allies.
But the leader of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, refuses any vote on the project.
Democratic President Biden assured Monday that he “would be happy” to discuss with Mr. Johnson, whose positions are under the influence of the arch-favorite in the Republican primaries with a view to the November presidential election, former President Donald Trump.
The latter requires that tougher immigration legislation also be approved in Congress before any new financial aid to Ukraine.
“The way they (the Republicans) are turning away from the threat that Russia represents, the way they are turning away from NATO and our obligations, it is simply shocking,” thundered President Biden while campaigning for his re-election.
