MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JUNE 24: President of Russia and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Vladimir Putin makes a speech in Red Square during a Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia. The 75th-anniversary marks the end of the Great Patriotic War when the Nazi's capitulated to the then Soviet Union. (Photo by Sergey Guneev - Host Photo Agency via Getty Images )
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said ominously on Tuesday that the Russian government would respond to United States sanctions imposed this week, punishing his country for the assassination attempt of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
“When there is nothing to show to substantiate their claims about the Navalny poisoning, when all those who treated him hide the facts that would help understand what happened to him … instead of honestly cooperating and revealing the facts, they begin to punish us … this gives no credit to anyone who makes such decisions. And we will definitely respond,” said Lavrov in a Moscow press conference.
The U.S. intelligence community has conclusively agreed that the Russian government and more specifically the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) orchestrated the attempted assassination of Navalny.
It is unclear what avenue Russia and President Vladimir Putin may take to fight back against rising sanctions from both the United States and the European Union, but it seems clear that they will.
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