A video circulating on social media on Thursday shows purely medical workers attending to Alexei Navalny on a plane while screaming in pain after what his allies had been poisoned by the Kremlin.
The video, which appears to be first posted on Instagram Stories by a passenger, shows the medics running in the hallway as other passengers see if a man can be heard moaning in angry off-camera.
“At the beginning of the flight (Navalny) the toilet went off and he did not return,” the passenger posted in a message to the Instagram story. “He became very ill and they could hardly resuscitate him because he was screaming in pain. They do not say what is wrong with him. Now we have ended up in Omsk. An ambulance arrived.”
Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, tweeted that he had fallen ill on a flight back to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk and taken to a hospital after the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk
Yarmysh told Echo Moscow radio station that he must have consumed poison in tea he drank in an airport cafe before fleeing early Thursday. During the flight, Navalny began to soar and asked her to talk to him so that he could “focus on the sound of a voice.” He then went to the bathroom and lost consciousness, and has since been in a coma and on a ventilator in critical condition.
Other opposition figures were quick to point out the Kremlin’s involvement.
“We are convinced that the only people who have the capacity to target Navalny like myself are Russian security services with definitive clearance of Russian political leadership,” said Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the Pussy Riot protest group who sided with intensive care after suspected poisoning in 2018, The Associated Press reported. “We believe Putin is definitely a person who is moving forward in this situation.”
An ambulance will be parked outside the hospital for intensive care of the hospital, where Alexei Navalny will be hospitalized on Thursday, August 20, 2020 in Omsk, Russia.
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Doctors in Omsk Ambulance Hospital no. 1, where the politician was treated, remained tight-lipped about his diagnosis, saying only that they considered a variety of possible theories. Local health officials said they found no indication that Navalny was suffering from a heart attack, stroke like the coronavirus.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was necessary to wait for test results showing what caused Navalny’s condition, adding the authorities would consider a request to leave Navalny Russia, which has not fully opened its borders. to a lockon of a coronavirus, for treatment.
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Navalny has often been detained by law enforcement and harassed by pro-Kremlin groups for his outspoken opposition to Putin. In 2017, he was attacked by several men who threw antiseptics in his face, injuring one eye.
Last year, Navalny was taken from prison to hospital, where he was sentenced to life in prison following an administrative arrest, with what his team said was suspected as poisoning.
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Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation has exposed graffiti among government officials, including some at the highest level. Last month, he had to close the foundation following a financially devastating lawsuit filed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Kremlin-affiliated businessman.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
