Tough US Sanctions On Russia Over Poisoning And Jailing Aleksey Navalny

The United States has imposed a tough set of sanctions on Russia over the attempted assassination and subsequent imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Aleksey Navalny. Announcing the sanctions at a press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the U.S. intelligence community assesses with "high confidence" that officers of Russia's Federal Security Service used a nerve agent to p