Navalny, Germany: “Moscow will explain in the next few days or the European Union will discuss sanctions”

Germany is ready to discuss sanctions against Russia in the case Navalny. The confirmation comes from the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. There GermanyHe currently chairs the European Union, which will initiate discussions on possible sanctions against Russia if Moscow does not give explanations about the poisoning of the Russian opponent “in the coming days”.

“Fixing ultimatums doesn’t help anyonebut if in the coming days the Russian side does not help to clarify what happened, then we will have to discuss an answer with our partners, “Maas told the Bild newspaper. The head of German diplomacy added that if sanctions are decided, they should be “selective.” Navalny is currently hospitalized in Berlin, where according to Angela Merkel’s government, doctors have “unequivocally” established that he was poisoned in Russia before his transfer of a Novichok-type nerve agent, designed in Soviet times. for military. Maas, for the first time so blatantly on the part of Berlin, implicated Moscow in the poisoning: “There are several leads in this direction, so now the Russian side must respond,” he said. “The lethal substance with which Navalny was poisoned was previously in the possession of the Russian authorities,” explained the German foreign minister.