On Wednesday, The leaders of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has asked President Donald Trump to investigate whether the Russian government poisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny with a chemical nerve agent, which would subject Moscow to sanctions.
The committee’s Republican chairman, Senator Jim Risch, and its Democratic ranking member, Senator Bob Menendez, wrote in a letter to Trump saying: “We are very concerned by assessments that Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned in August 2020, by a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok family.”
The request – which followed a similar request from leaders of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on September 8 – added to growing international support for a response to Navalny’s poisoning. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said earlier on Wednesday her country would discuss a response with European partners.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter from Risch and Menendez.
