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Findings from the organization created to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention confirm earlier findings from a German army research institute (Bundeswehr) specializing in chemical weapons. The OPCW took samples from Navalny at the request of the German government.
There is no doubt that the Novics used neurotoxin to poison Alexei Navalny
highlighted the British delegation to the OPCW on its Twitter page. “Any use of illicit chemical weapons is extremely worrying,” the British delegation added.
Sergei Skripal, a former Russian-British double agent and his daughter in 2018 in Salisbury, England, was also poisoned by Soviet-era Novics. Last year, the OPCW member states agreed to put Novics’ neurons on the blacklist. The ban went into effect four months ago.
Alexei Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s best-known critics, fell ill on August 20 and fell into a coma on the Tomsk-Moscow flight. The aircraft made a forced landing in Omsk, where Navalny was treated by specialists and then transferred to the Charité Clinic in Berlin on August 22 at the request of his relatives, with the consent of the authorities.
Western countries have demanded sanctions against Moscow for poisoning a critical Kremlin activist. However, the Russian leadership denies that it had anything to do with the case and doubted that Navalny had been poisoned.
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