American Military News by Liz George June 16, 2021
During a Monday interview with NBC News, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States government of assassinating Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt during the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
When asked by NBC’s Keir Simmons if Putin had ordered the assassination of Russian dissenter Alexei Navalny, Putin responded, “Of course not. We don’t have this kind of habit of assassinating anybody. That’s one.”
Navalny was almost killed while traveling from Siberia to Moscow last summer and was detained after returning to Russia earlier this year. Russian agents have been accused of attempting to murder Navalny.
“Number two is I want to ask you: Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman? Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering the Congress? And they didn’t go there to steal a laptop,” Putin asked, referencing Babbitt, who died after she was shot in the Capitol building by a still-unnamed Capitol Police officer.
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