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After introducing himself as an advisor to Nikolai Petrushev, secretary of the Russian National Security Council, Maxim Ustinov, A. Navaln called Konstantin Kudriavtsev, a specialist in chemical weapons. The opposition has been complaining for almost an hour about a failed attempt to poison him in August.
A. Navalnas told about it on his YouTube channel.
Read more about A. Navalnas’ conversation with the official in English here..
VIDEO: Alexei Navaln called his poison
A. Navalnas pretended to gather information for N. Petrušev to explain why the operation failed.
During the conversation, K. Kudriavcev stated that the dose of poison administered to A. Navalns would have killed him if the pilot had not landed in Omsk in an emergency and the doctors had not acted so quickly.
Kudriavtsev said he was not part of a poisoning operation in Tomsk, but admitted that he had been involved in at least one previous operation in 2017. He also contributed to the destruction of evidence when Navaln was hospitalized in Omsk.
K. Kudriavcev recounted how the FSB tried to remove any traces of toxic material from A. Navalnas’ clothing and personal belongings.
According to K. Kudriavcev, the highest concentration of “Novičiok” was found on A. Navalnas’ clothing, especially inside the shorts.
During the conversation, it became clear that the FSB’s purpose was to kill A. Navalns, not to intimidate or maim. It appears to have been a long-term operation.
A joint investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider, CNN and Der Spiegel last week found that a group of FSB operators had attacked Navaln’s life in August.
According to Bellingcat, FSB-covered smog attempted to poison A. Navalna with the substance in August, although the activist has been following the latter for a long time, since 2017.
The operation, to eliminate Navaln, was reportedly approved after the opponent announced plans to challenge Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections. FSB agents reportedly followed him on more than 30 trips and flew to the same cities.
Agents bought tickets with real and fictitious names. The study authors publish the names and nicknames of all the agents who participated in the surveillance operation, and Alexei Aleksandrov (Frolov), Vladimir Paniayev and Ivan Osipov (Spiridonov) traveled to Siberia with A. Navalns during the August trip.
It is not “Bellingcat” (read the full study here), it is possible that A. Navalnas was first treated for poisoning in July this year, when he and his wife Julia went to Kaliningrad for a short romantic break.
During that trip, Julia Navalnaya suddenly felt bad. After sitting in a cafe on the beach, he was able to return to the hotel and recover alone the next morning. “I felt worse in my life,” recalls Julia.
A month later, A. Navaln left for Siberia and collapsed on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. The plane landed urgently in Omsk, and an activist from that city hospital was soon transferred to a clinic in Berlin, the German capital.
German doctors confirmed that A. Navaln had been poisoned with a “Novičiok” nerve paralyzing substance, similar to that applied to Sergei and Julia Skripalius in Salisbury, England.
At the time, GRU agents from the Russian military intelligence were working, and now, according to Bellingcat, the FSB was operating. Western services share this opinion.
The identities of the members of the FSB team were allegedly determined by comparing the information stored in the autonomous databases with the mobile phone bills. Several officers had also arrived in Omsk, where A. Navalnas spent several days in a coma.
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