Navalni “I will go to Russia if I recover” … Kremlin “CIA workers”

The main Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalni announced on social media on the 19th (local time) that his condition is improving when he uploaded a photo of himself walking down the stairs of the German hospital in Charite. Navalni awoke at 18 days after falling into a coma on August 20 on suspicion of poisoning. [인스타그램 캡처]

Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalni, who is being treated in Germany for symptoms of poisoning, has expressed his willingness to return to Russia as soon as he makes a full recovery.

Navalni said in an interview with Spigel, Germany’s top current affairs week on the 1st (local time), “not going back (to Russia) means that Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved his goals.” He said he would continue. He added: “I will not give Putin a gift that I will not return to Russia.”

Navalni, who has led the anti-Putin movement as a representative member of the Russian opposition, fell into a coma on August 20 on the plane from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow. Navalni was evacuated to a hospital in Omsk in Siberia, and two days later he was transferred to the Charite Hospital in Berlin for treatment. On the 7th of last month, the Charite Hospital revealed that Navalni had regained consciousness and was discharged on the 23rd.

Navalni fired a direct shot that there was President Putin behind the incident who tried to poison him. In an interview with Spiegel, he said: “There is Putin behind this crime” and “I cannot think of this case any other way.”

He added: “I will continue to travel to various parts of Russia, stay and drink water.” Navalni claims he was addicted to the nerve agents in the water bottle in his cabin before boarding a Russian airliner.

Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalni said on Instagram last month 17 (local time) that a nobichok was detected in a bottle of water in a hotel room visited by Navalni. The uploaded video shows a bottle of water believed to have detected Nobichok. [인스타그램 캡처]

In this regard, the German government also said on 2 last month that there was “unquestionable evidence” that Navalni was exposed to the nerve agent ‘Nobichok’ developed by the former Soviet Union and Russia for military use.

In an interview that day, Navalni said in an interview with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s secret visit: “I was impressed that she knew about my case and what was happening in Russia.” I came to understand it. ”

When Navalni attacked Putin, Russia immediately refuted him. According to the AFP news agency on the 1st, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin Palace, criticized Navalni’s interview saying that “I think the criticism of the Russian president is completely unfounded and unacceptable.”

“Navalni is working with the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),” he said. “Those who work with Western government agencies are not patients, but Western intelligence agents.” However, AFP said it did not release evidence that Navalni is related to the CIA.

Reporter Seok Kyung-min [email protected]