The US imposed sanctions on four FSB agents involved in the poisoning of Navalny

The United States has imposed sanctions on four Russian FSB employees involved in the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

This was reported on the US Treasury Department website.

They are Oleksiy Alexandrov, Kostiantyn Kudryavtsev, Ivan Osypov and Volodymyr Panayev.

It was noted that several FSB employees, as well as agents who coordinated the operation remotely, participated in the poisoning of Navalny.

Kudryavtsev was part of the group involved in the poisoning of Navalny. He was also involved in the surveillance of Russian opposition politician Volodymyr Kara-Murza. Osipov is mentioned as one of the main perpetrators of Navalny's poisoning. Panyaev followed Navalny several times before the attack.

Visa restrictions will apply to non-sanctioned employees of the FSB of Russia. Aleksandrov, Kudryavtsev, Osipov, Panyaev and their immediate family are not eligible to enter the United States. All their property and assets in the United States or owned or controlled by US citizens are frozen.

What is known about the poisoning of Navalny?

On August 20, 2020, Russian opposition leader Oleksiy Navalny collapsed on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow. After making an emergency landing in Omsk, he was hospitalized and two days later he was treated at Berlin's Charite Clinic.

On September 2, the German government announced that traces of poison from the "Novachok" group were found in Oleksiy Navalny's body. We are talking about poisonous substances with a nerve-paralyzing effect, which were worked on by the laboratories of the USSR and the Russian Federation.

Then, two more independent laboratories in France and Sweden confirmed the information about the poisoning of the politician by "Novachkowa".

EU countries, the UK, and the US condemned the attack on Navalny and called on the Russian authorities to investigate the incident, while Ukraine demanded tougher sanctions against the Russian Federation. The oppositionist himself said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind his poisoning.

Later, Navalny published a video in which he communicates with one of the FSB employees who monitored him and participated in a special poisoning operation.

On February 17, 2021, Alexei Navalny was detained after arriving in Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering for several months from poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok.

In November 2022, the EU introduced sanctions against employees of the Russian FSB involved in the poisoning of the oppositionist Navalny.