- Biden met with Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya in San Francisco.
- Meeting came as Biden called Putin an ‘S.O.B’.
President Joe Biden met with Alexei Navalny’s widow and daughter in California and promised major new sanctions against Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime.
The president saw Yulia and Dasha Navalnaya in San Francisco, and shared his condolences for the death of Putin’s top critic and opposition leader in a Siberian penal colony last week.
He hugged Yulia and promised that her late husband’s legacy would live on as Moscow ramped up its threats of nuclear attacks on the West.
‘The President expressed his admiration for Aleksey Navalny’s extraordinary courage and his legacy of fighting against corruption and for a free and democratic Russia in which the rule of law applies equally to everyone,’ the White House said.
They met as Navalny’s mother Lyudmila Navalnaya revealed she had been taken to a secret morgue to see her son’s body.
She demanded that Kremlin officials give back ‘my son’s body immediately’ after investigators tried ‘blackmailing’ her into holding a ‘secret’ burial.
President Joe Biden met with Alexei Navalny ‘s widow and daughter in California and promised major new sanctions against Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime
The president hugs Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya in San Francisco
It came as Biden called Putin an ‘S.O.B.’ in a campaign speech to a small group of supporters on Wednesday night.
He also condemned his predecessor Donald Trump for comparing his legal woes with Navalny’s plight.
Biden is planning to announce a fresh round of sanctions on Friday, as fears grow that Putin will put a nuclear weapon into space.
Putin spent part of Thursday taunting the West with a joyride in a modernized supersonic Tu-160M strategic nuclear bomber.
Dasha Navalnaya (left) and brother Zahar Navalny (right) pose with their mother Yulia Navalnaya at the Oscars in 2023
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