In a tweet marking the departure Saturday, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote: “The plane with Alexey flew to Berlin. Many thanks to everyone for their support. The fight for Alexey’s life and health is just beginning, and there is still a lot to go on, but at least now the first step has been taken. “
In an earlier tweet, Yarmysh posted a photo showing Navalny’s stretcher on the air ambulance. “Alexey was taken to the medical plane. Yulia is with him,” she wrote. Yulia is the wife of Navalny.
On Friday, Russian doctors treating the anti-corruption blogger gave his team permission to move him.
“We do not object to his transfer to another hospital,” said Anatoly Kalinichenko, deputy chief physician at the hospital where Navalny is being treated, reporters said, according to TASS.
The Siberian hospital treating Navalny has denied claims that the Russian opposition leader was poisoned on Friday – even because his wife said doctors there could not be trusted.
RIA Novosti quoted the deputy chief doctor as saying: “We have requests from relatives to transport [him]. They take this risk on themselves, we do not hold it. “
On Friday, Kalinichenko, the deputy chief physician, said no toxins were found in Navalny’s blood or urine.
“We do not believe that the patient suffered poisoning,” Kalinichenko told local journalists at a news conference.
“Toxins as traces of their presence in the body have not been identified. Probably the diagnosis of ‘poisoning’ remains somewhere in the back of our heads. But we do not believe that the patient suffered poisoning,” he added.
The Navalny team claims that transport police in Omsk have discovered a ‘deadly substance’ that poses a threat to his life and the lives of the people around him and says that this is the reason why the hospital in the initially did not allow him to move.
TASS also reported Friday that an “industrial chemical” identified in samples taken from Navalny was a non-toxic substance commonly found in plastic products, citing the regional department of the Interior Ministry.
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