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Russian chemist Willy Mirzanov said Novishuk’s nerve gas was not giving his victims a chance to survive and expressed doubts about opponent Alexei Navalny’s ability to recover and return to normal life.
Mirzanov, who was a member of the team that developed the gas in the early 1970s, explained in an interview with Radio Free Europe that the version of the poison used against Navalny was different from the version used against former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
He explained that Navalny had targeted his digestive system, while Scribal and his daughter were attacked through the skin.
Mirzanov worked from 1965 to 1992 at the State Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology, which was run by the army and the KGB. When he left high school in 1992, he was the first person to speak publicly about the Novichok toxin group.
The chemist explained that when the target did not die, it means that he was administered a non-lethal dose, but it leaves him disabled and unable to work.
He indicated that he doubted the doctors would say Navalny would recover from the poison.
It revealed that the neurotransmitter “acetylcholine” is responsible for transmitting signals in the brain, which controls many functions, such as vision, muscles, and metabolism. But as a result of this toxicity, these connections can be irreversibly damaged or destroyed.
He said that people who were exposed to gas in the Soviet period never returned to work.
On the delay of the Russian authorities in the transport of Navalny to Germany, he explained that it was logical, since the human body is trying to get rid of the poison. The longer you stay in Russia, the less poison there is in your body, although the effects are still visible in your system.
At the end of the interview, the chemist expressed his guilt for having participated in the development of the gas, explaining that he had not imagined that the gas would become a weapon of terror used against civilians, and he and his colleagues at the time believed that they were at the service of their country.
A new crisis erupted between Russia and the West, after Germany confirmed this week that there was “conclusive evidence” that the most prominent opponent of the Kremlin master, Vladimir Putin, had been poisoned with nerve gas that Novichok developed during the Soviet era. .
Western leaders and many Russians expressed grave concern over what Navalny’s allies said was the first detected use of chemical weapons against a Russian opposition leader on the country’s soil.
