Navalny had been imprisoned since 2021 in a Russian jail close to the Arctic Circle in February. The U. S. secured a jail transfer Thursday with Russia, which freed Wall Street Journal columnist Evan Gershkovich, past U. S. Marine Paul Whelan, and 14 people. During a press conference held at the White House on Thursday, Sullivan was asked if Navalny, if he were still alive, may have been included in the switch.
Sadly, Alexei Navalny passed away, according to Sullivan, who and his colleagues had been working on a package.
Sullivan also mentioned that he witnessed Gershkovich’s parents the evening Navalny was revealed as a dead body and that President Joe Biden used this death as an additional motivation to free the Wall Street Journal reporter and others from Russia.
” In fact, on the very day that]Navalny ] died, I saw Evan’s parents, and I told them that the president was determined to get this done, even in light of that tragic news, and that we were going to work day and night to get to this day. And so the labor that went on for the past few months and culminated in today, according to Sullivan on Thursday.
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Biden condemned the demise of Navalny in February, saying in a talk,” Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for an spontaneous death”.
The leader celebrated the launch of the captives, saying in a declaration that all of them have “endured unbelievable suffering and ambiguity” but that” now, their horror is over”.
