More info on the Biden -- Putin Summit and why things are happening on two
tracks. Eric
U.S. Preparing More Sanctions Against Russia, Sullivan Says
The national security adviser raised the issue of more penalties in the
poisoning of Aleksei A. Navalny days after President Biden met with President
Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
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[President Biden and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia before their meeting
on Wednesday in Geneva.]
President Biden and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia before their meeting
on Wednesday in Geneva.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
[Annie Karni]<https://www.nytimes.com/by/annie-karni>
By Annie Karni<https://www.nytimes.com/by/annie-karni>
June 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s national security adviser said on Sunday that
the United States was preparing more sanctions against Russia in response to
the poisoning of Aleksei A.
Navalny<https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/aleksei-navalny>, the country’s most
prominent opposition leader, days after Mr. Biden attended his first
face-to-face summit meeting with President Vladimir V.
Putin<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/world/europe/biden-putin-geneva-meeting.html>.
“We are preparing another package of sanctions to apply in this case,” Jake
Sullivan, the national security adviser, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,”
referring to Mr. Navalny’s treatment.
Mr. Sullivan was vague when pressed on the timing of the sanctions or what they
would include, saying only that additional action would come “as soon as we
develop the packages to ensure that we’re getting the right targets.”
“When we do that,” he said, “we will impose further sanctions with respect to
chemical weapons.”
In April, the Biden administration imposed its first sanctions on
Russia<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/world/europe/us-russia-sanctions.html>
for the poisoning and imprisonment of Mr. Navalny. But those penalties were
not specifically directed at Mr. Putin or the oligarchs who support him.
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Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said there was no significance to
the timing of Mr. Sullivan’s remarks. “The law requires we keep looking at
sanctions targets connected to chemical weapons use,” she said, noting that
there had been “no change from before the summit to after the summit.”
Mr. Biden and Mr. Putin both
described<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/us/politics/biden-putin.html>
their three-hour meeting in Geneva on Wednesday as positive, despite few
concrete actions to come out of it other than an agreement to send ambassadors
back to each other’s capitals.
After the meeting, Mr. Biden told reporters that he had been clear about
consequences for Russia if Mr. Navalny, who in February was sentenced to more
than two years in
prison<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/world/europe/russia-navalny-putin.html>,
were to die in captivity.
“I made it clear to him that I believe the consequences of that would be
devastating for Russia,” Mr. Biden
said<https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/06/16/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference-4/>.
“There has been no hostility,” Mr. Putin said in a separate news conference
after the summit. “On the contrary, our meeting took place in a constructive
spirit.”
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Republicans have criticized the president’s handling of Russia, claiming that
Mr. Biden displayed weakness in his meeting with Mr. Putin and noting that he
had waived sanctions on the company behind Russia’s Nord Stream 2
pipeline<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/world/europe/us-sanctions-russian-gas-pipeline-ship.html>,
allowing it to be completed.
Mr. Sullivan pushed back on that characterization of the meeting, saying that
the summit was “a study in contrast to what happened in Helsinki,” where
President Donald J. Trump held his first face-to-face meeting with Mr. Putin in
2018 and dismissed the conclusions by U.S. intelligence
agencies<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/world/europe/trump-putin-election-intelligence.html>
that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election.
“Privately in the room, President Biden communicated to President Putin that
there would be costs and consequences if harmful activities against the United
States continue,” Mr. Sullivan said on “Fox News Sunday,” adding that the
United States had sent $150 million in security assistance to Ukraine a week
before the summit.
“He entered and exited this summit in Geneva as the leader of the free world,”
Mr. Sullivan said, “a mantle that Donald Trump had given away and that Joe
Biden reclaimed on behalf of this country.”
