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While US President Trump has so far been cautious about the Navalny case, Foreign Minister Pompeo has now become clearer: High-ranking Russian officials were likely behind the Kremlin critic’s poisoning. .
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has described the poison attack on Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as likely to have been ordered by a high authority in Moscow. There is a “reasonable possibility” that high-ranking government officials were involved, Pompeo said in a radio interview. That is not good for Russia or the Russian people, he said, and it is not the way “normal countries” work today. “That will be costly for the Russians.”
Pompeo said the EU and the US had made it clear to the Russian government that they expected those responsible to be held accountable. “We too will do our best to reach a conclusion as to who was responsible.” This research should also “reduce the risk of such things happening again.” He does not want to anticipate President Donald Trump on the question of how the United States government will react to the incident.
So far, Trump has been quite cautious about the Navalny case. Last week, after the German government announced the results of the investigation, it said the United States had not yet received any evidence.
The G7 countries’ foreign ministers, which include both the United States and Germany, condemned Navalny’s “confirmed poisoning” last night and called on Moscow to “urgently” bring the perpetrators to justice. Any use of chemical weapons is “unacceptable”.
According to the federal government, a special Bundeswehr laboratory has established “beyond any doubt” that the 44-year-old man was poisoned with a chemical agent from the Novitschok group. He is being treated at the Charité Clinic in Berlin. The Kremlin denies being involved in the case. Russian doctors found no evidence of poisoning. Moscow asked the federal government to provide evidence. This has now handed over the laboratory results to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to which Russia also belongs.
