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The poisoned Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny was released from the Berlin Charité on Tuesday. The hospital announced Wednesday morning. Nawalny’s health condition has improved “so much that acute medical treatment could be terminated.”
Navalny was treated in the Charité for a total of 32 days, of which 24 days in the intensive care unit. The treating physicians consider a full recovery possible based on the previous course and the current condition of the patient. Any long-term consequences of severe poisoning can only be assessed later, according to the hospital’s announcement.
Navalny collapsed on August 20 on an intra-Russian flight. Then the pilots landed in the Siberian Omsk, where he was treated at the local clinic. On August 22, he was flown to Germany, where he was treated at the Charité.
Navalny, 44, is said to have been the target of an assassination attempt with a neurotoxin from the Novichok group, which is banned under the chemical weapons ban. Three special laboratories, one from the Bundeswehr and two others in France and Sweden, confirmed the weapons found.
According to the Kremlin, Navalny can return to his homeland like any other Russian. He is happy that the 44-year-old is on the mend, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. It will now be seen if Navalny will speak to the Russian security authorities after his return and share information about his case. In any case, those around President Vladimir Putin have no access to the Novichok Group’s banned chemical warfare agents.
Russia’s ambassador Sergei Nechayev criticized the fact that Russia received neither biomaterial from Navalny nor evidence of poisoning. An “anti-Russian hysteria” was artificially provoked, he said. Berlin newspaper. “What we cannot accept at all is the final finding that the Russian government has something to do with the case. We cannot accept ultimatums and threats of sanctions.”
Navalny scoffed at Russian President Putin’s statements on Twitter that his adversary may have deliberately poisoned himself. “Good theory. I think it deserves the most careful investigation,” he wrote Tuesday night. “I cooked Novichok in the kitchen. I took a drink from the bottle on the plane. I fell into a coma.”
Navalny’s team had stated that the Russian state was responsible for the crime and had no interest in investigating it. “We take the case absolutely seriously,” Nechayev said. However, working with Germany is not easy. Responses to Russian requests for mutual legal assistance would be delayed.
A proposal from the Russian Medical Association to work with German colleagues was rejected. And a request to take care of Navalny as a Russian citizen on a consular basis has not yet been answered, Nechayev said.
Facing allegations that the Russian leadership had poisoned Navalny, Netschajew said that Russian doctors treated him first and that Moscow eventually cleared the way to Berlin. The German government and EU representatives have now repeatedly asked Russia to clarify the case. Germany is discussing with other allies the possibility of imposing sanctions in the case against Moscow.
