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Spectacular development in the case of Novichok’s attack on Alexei Navalny (44) in August. A member of the assassination team of the Russian national secret service FSB has revealed himself: the victim of the attack, Navalny himself!
Navalny obtained the confession with a trick. Russia’s most prominent member of the opposition posed as a senior FSB official when he called the man. He told him by phone about the failed assassination attempt and also revealed numerous details of the Putin regime’s undercover neurotoxin operation.
▶ ︎ In fact: Navalny took the research into her own hands. Together with the investigative team of the “Bellingcat” investigation platform, he first tried to convince the main persons identified to make a confession.
But one after the other just hung up when he called.
Photo: dpa
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Navalny then decided to try a trick with the last two members of the assassination team: he pretended to be a high-ranking FSB officer who was supposed to write a report on the failed assassination for a secret service chief.
▶ ︎ Navalny was exposed to the first person called. The man replied, “I know exactly who you are.” And hung up.
▶ ︎ But the second, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, took the bait and asked Navalny alias “Maxim Ustinov” for 49 minutes about the circumstances of the murder.
Kudryavtsev himself was not involved in the attack, but was dispatched to Omsk five days after the nerve agent attack to remove traces of the nerve agent from Navalny’s clothing.
Navalny aka “Ustinov” led the conversation to the crucial question: namely, why Navalny’s assassination was unsuccessful and why the potentially fatal neurotoxin did not kill the Kremlin critic.
Kudryavtsev’s response: “Well, I think it should have happened before what happened. But maybe they wanted it to happen on the plane because: if it had flown three hours, if there had not been an emergency landing, the result would have been different. In this sense, I think that the plane played a crucial role. Well, it was one of the factors, the other was the ambulance. “
The second “factor” by which Navalny survived was the immediate appearance of the ambulance and the correct treatment at the Omsk hospital, from where Navalny was later evacuated to Germany.
Kudryavtsev explains the failure of Putin’s intelligence service as follows: “The fact that the ambulance came and so on. They have the emergency measures they usually have … they lowered the acidity, they injected some kind of antidote. They acted directly on his instructions, the doctors. That the ambulance was dispatched, that’s also a factor. And then the fact that they took him to the hospital and did something based on the symptoms and all that too. “
▶ ︎ Kudryavtsev also admits that he has been tracking Navalny for several years on behalf of the FSB and that there was “a past operation” in the city of Kirov in 2017. It is not clear what type it was.
In addition, the Kudryavtsev awards where his colleagues placed the Novitschok to assassinate Putin’s enemy Navalny, and which item of clothing he had to particularly thoroughly clean to cover the traces: “They told us to work inside the underwear.”
All in all, Alexei Navalny’s phone call with one of his possible assassins confirms the connections previously made by Bellingcat: the Russian secret service was commissioned to kill Alexei Navalny in Tomsk using the Novichok chemical weapon. It was not the first failed assassination attempt on the Kremlin critic that Putin wants to see underground at all costs. Yet another failure of his secret service reveals the full scope of state terrorism.
