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Alexei Navalny posted a photo of himself from his hospital bed in Germany on Wednesday.
Traces of the nerve gas allegedly used to poison Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny were found in a water bottle in his hotel room before he fell ill, his aides said.
Navalny collapsed during a flight over Siberia last August. Germany says he was poisoned with the nerve agent “Novichok”.
Previously it was believed that it could have been a target of the airport.
“Now we realize that the poisoning was done before he left his room to get to the airport,” says a post published on his Instagram account.
Navalny, Russia’s top opposition figure and the main critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is receiving treatment in the German capital, Berlin.
His team of aides claims he was poisoned on Putin’s orders.
The Kremlin denies any involvement in the incident. Says there is no evidence of nerve gas use.
A video posted to Navalny’s Instagram account on Thursday shows members of his team in a hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk after news of his poisoning emerged.
The post says they went there to collect possible evidence from the hotel to send to Navalny’s medical team in Germany because they don’t trust the Russian authorities.
You can see several empty water bottles in the video. They are among a number of items that have been bagged by people with gloves.
The publication says that “a German laboratory found traces of” Novichok “specifically on the Tomsk hotel bottle.
German authorities did not comment on this alleged disclosure.
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Two bottles of water were among the others featured in the video posted on Navalny’s Instagram account.
And earlier this week, Navalny wrote her first post since she fell ill. He said in the post that he can now breathe without help.
His spokesman said he intends to return to Russia.
What happened to Nafalni?
The Russian anti-corruption activist fell ill during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20 and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk. Two days later, Russian officials were convinced to allow him to be flown to Germany.
After the necessary tests were carried out, Germany said there was “overwhelming evidence” that Navalny was poisoned with the “Novichok” nerve gas.
Laboratories in Sweden and France later confirmed the results of the German tests, according to the German government.
He had used a “Novichok” nerve agent to poison former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, in 2018. The two survived, but a city resident named Don Stergis died after coming into contact with the poison. .
Britain accused Russian military intelligence of carrying out the attack. Twenty countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies in response. As for Moscow, it has denied any connection to the operation.
