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A chemist who participated in the secret Soviet Novichuk nerve gas program offered his apologies to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny who, according to German authorities, was a victim of this toxic substance.
“I deeply apologize to Nafalni for participating in this criminal industry that led to the production of the substance that poisoned him,” Phil Mirzayinov said yesterday, Saturday, during an interview with the opposition station “REN TV”.
Mirzayinov, who currently resides in the United States, was the first to reveal Novichok’s existence in articles published in the early 1990s.
Navalny, who felt ill during a trip to Russia on August 20, is still recovering in a Berlin hospital, where he will learn to pronounce again from his alleged poisoning with this gas.
Moscow refused to hold him responsible for what happened, despite the results of German, French and Swedish laboratories that concluded that he had been poisoned.
Three former Soviet scientists, now in their 70s, have publicly confirmed their involvement in the making of the Novichok.
be patient
“Navalny will have to be patient, but he will recover again,” Phil Mirzayinov said, waiting for a period of “up to a year” for recovery.
He added that the Kremlin’s main opponent probably ingested the poison, because it appears that no other people were poisoned.
On the other hand, another scientist who was involved in the Novichuk industry, Vladimir Ogilv, told the Russian research site “Proct” that Navalny’s survival indicates that the poison was absorbed through the skin and not ingested.
People close to Navalny said they gathered evidence in the hotel room that the exhibitors were leaving for Tomsk, Siberia, just before she fell ill in late August.
They added that a German laboratory found traces of Novichok in a bottle of water that was in his room, and it was sent to Germany.
A Russian scientist, known to state media for having worked to make a Novichuk, questioned Phil Mirzayinov’s comments on Sunday.
In response to RIA Novosti’s questions, Leonid Rink said that Mirzayinov was not in the group that created Novichok and therefore was not aware of its “biological effects”.
According to Rink, the opponent Navalny was not exposed to Novichok’s nerve agent, because if it had happened, he “would not have survived.”
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