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Mystical robbery
At the Charite Clinic in Berlin, which treats both the country’s top executives and ordinary Berliners, doctors provide the public with very little knowledge of the condition of their most famous patient at the moment, especially treatment methods.
As of September 3, a 44-year-old Russian politician who is still being treated in the intensive care unit, still in an artificially induced coma, is hooked up to an artificial lung ventilator, although the symptoms of cholinesterase poisoning have decreased somewhat. .
In search of the most effective means, German doctors draw on the experience of the country’s army and examine the treatment methods of other people who have been violent in Novičiok in recent years.
It is true that this is not so easy to do. It turns out that the old nerve paralyzing substance, which was here in 2015, disappeared from a certified specialist laboratory in Finland, Verifin. Research examples of the poisoned Bulgarian businessman Yemeljan Gebrev.
Clinic “Charity” / Photo by Scanpix
Preliminary analysis of J. Gebrev’s samples carried out in this laboratory showed that organophosphates, which were prohibited for the production of chemical weapons, were used against Bulgaria. In 2018, after an attack on former Russian agent Sergei Skripali and his daughter, the substance was identified as the famous chemical weapon developed by the USSR, Novičiok.
Unfortunately, it has now become clear that the Gebrew samples are no longer available. Upon request, the Bulgarian businessman received a shocking response from the laboratory: although the Verifin samples had to be stored for at least five years, they could not be found in their warehouses.
The killers fixed the mistakes
There is no reason to doubt the German doctors who found traces of Novičiok on the body of A. Navaln. This is also emphasized by Russian scientists, who developed and perfected this poison several decades ago.
Without hiding their remorse that the chemical weapon they discovered is being used against civilians today, they are willing to share their thoughts on how A. Navaln may have been poisoned and what specific substance.
The version of Novičiok used against A. Navalna for the victim can be many times more dangerous than the one used in Salisbury to kill Skripalis. Vilas Mirzajanov, one of the creators of this chemical weapon, shared such an assumption with Freedom Radio.
Vilas Mirzajanovas / Scanpix nuotr.
1965-1992 The scientist, who worked at the State Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology under the direct command of the army of the USSR and the KGB, was the first Niovičiok developer to speak publicly about this chemical weapon as early as 1992.
According to him, the Russian opposition politician was poisoned with a different form of poison than Skripalis: they entered A. Navaln’s body through the gastrointestinal tract, not through the skin.
Danger only for the victim
According to Mirzoyanov, the operators, as he calls the direct poisoners of people unfavorable to the Kremlin, used another version of Novičiok, codenamed A-261. Instead, guanidine is attached to Novičiok’s basic formula instead of the amidine group substance. This is what the author of Novičiok, Piotr Kirpichev, did.
It is also not dangerous for the operator. He could take out the poison and put it in tea even with his bare hands.
This improvement has resulted in an almost ten-fold increase in toxicity compared to A-230 and A-232 and the liquid poisons used at Salisbury. “Second, it is already a solid substance. You can mix it with sugar, put it in a tea bag. A few milligrams are enough to kill a person with it,” says Mirzoyan.
A. Navaln is believed to have drank poisoned tea at Tomsk airport on 20 August; it was the only food consumed by politicians that day. He only felt bad on the plane in which Tomsk had to return to Moscow. The 44-year-old politician received first aid while he was still on the ocean liner, and later in Omsk, where the plane unexpectedly landed.
If a solid form “Novičiok” was used against A. Navalns – V. Mirzojanov calls it A-261 – it is probably completely harmless to the environment. According to V. Mirzoyanov, harmful substances do not penetrate even through paper. “Just put it in a tea bag. Nobody noticed,” says the scientist. “It is also not dangerous for the operator. He could remove the poison and put it in the tea even with his bare hands.”
The consequences are unclear
If A. Navalnas was poisoned with such strong poisons, why didn’t he die immediately? In answering this question, the researcher considers that the poisoners may have had different goals: to keep politics alive but disabled. It is true that the scientist who reaches out to arguments based on facts is in no rush to consider what consequences this weapon would have on a person.
Acetylcholine, an organic compound whose balance in the body is disturbed by poisoning by cholinesterase inhibitors, such as “Novičiok”, is responsible for the transmission of brain signals to functional organs: vision, muscles, digestion.
“Due to the poisoning, some of these connections may be irreversibly or semi-damaged,” the scientist does not take into account Navaln’s prospects for a full recovery.
You will not know of a complete recovery from organophosphate chemical weapons poisoning. “People who found such materials during the Soviet era never went back to their previous work,” he says, referring to perhaps the first Novičiok victim known to the public: Andrei Železniakov, who worked at the aforementioned research institute.
Substance A-232, also known as Novičiok-5, was poisoned by a man in 1987, in case of failure of the laboratory fan. Immediately after the poisoning, A. Železniakov felt nauseous, hallucinations began, and the scientist lost consciousness.
The life of a scientist was struggled for more than a week, for another half year A. Železniakov could not walk, suffered from depression, could not concentrate, had to learn to read again. He did not return to work and felt the effects of the poisoning until his death in 1993.
Traces cannot be hidden
The Freedom Radio interlocutor has no doubt that in Omsk, where first aid was provided, an intentional attempt was made to detain A. Navalna by not allowing him to fly to Berlin. The human body is trying to decompose the poison, so, by order of the Russian authorities, everything was done according to the rules: the more the patient was considered, the more the poison was extinguished.
However, the above-mentioned example from Skripaliai shows that once in the body, “Novičiok” does not disappear so quickly, so it can be detected even after a month. Furthermore, thanks to the sophisticated laboratory equipment which, like the various reagents required for the identification of Novičiok, is undoubtedly at the disposal of the Bundeswehr. The fact that the samples taken in Omsk and examined in Moscow did not show poisoning “Novičiok”, V. Mirzoyanov tends to call deliberate misinformation.
“There is such a team in Moscow. The other thing is, of course, they will not report the test results, even if they did. Intelligence will not allow it,” says the scientist.
Poisoned underwear?
Vladimir Uglev, another former employee of the aforementioned research institute, is second to the colleague when considering how Novičiok could have been poisoned. His version: This time smokers could use a solid form of poisonous solution, which could also be mixed with some faster-acting substances to hide symptoms.
In this case, the poison is not harmless to the poisoner, especially since, according to V. Uglev, there is still no antidote to “Novičiok”, but he can protect himself using the usual means of protection.
According to this scientist, the politician could have been poisoned by Novičiok spraying his underwear or socks. This would explain why other passengers were not infected on the plane, where A. Navalns was ill.
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