Navalny talks to the agent who poisoned him (and confesses) – Corriere.it

To confirm this, Navalny himself was one of the FSB (Russian secret service) agents who would have participated in the entire operation. The man spoke by phone thinking of reporting to a senior official of the State Security Council while the device was the blogger that the specialized team in chemical operations had tried to assassinate. If he had flown a little more and had not landed so suddenly, perhaps everything would have turned out differently, the agent admitted to his “superior”. The man, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, a graduate of the military chemical-bacteriological academy, had previously worked in one of the biological institutes of the Ministry of Defense, before joining the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet KGB. He was thrown out of bed (he was at home in quarantine because Covid hit him) by a phone call from a certain Maxim Ustinov on a special line of the security apparatus (Navalny had falsified the identity of the caller, as he also usually does. call services that make fancy numbers appear on the receiver’s screen). The fake Ustinov pretended to be an assistant to the head of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, a figure very close to Putin.

So the unfortunate Kudryavtsev stayed on the phone for 49 minutes (the entire conversation was posted on the Bellingcat website), recounting everything he knew about the operation. The poison had been placed on Navalny’s clothing and in particular Navalny’s underpants by other agents who had operated in Tomsk. Then he had to go twice to Omsk, where the blogger was saved by the diligence of the pilot, nurses and doctors, to clean everything up. Remove any trace of the Novichok from Navalny’s clothing, which is, however, still in Russia. The main exponent of the opposition is still in Germany, in a secret place where he is recovering from the aftermath of the terrible substance. The same one that had been used in Great Britain in 2018 by agents of the Gru, the spy army. The target had been a former Russian intelligence man who fled abroad, Sergej Skripal, who was shot along with his daughter. Once again, the operation went awry and both victims survived.