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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Saturday he was making progress in his recovery by posting a photo on the social network Instagram showing him walking down a ladder at La Charité university hospital in Berlin.
“I tell you how my recovery is going. It is already a clear path, although there is still a long way to go,” said the opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, according to German doctors, was said to have been poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok type, a chemical weapon developed in the former Soviet Union.
However, Navalny admitted that until very recently he did not recognize people and could not speak, without even being able to express his despair at this inability.
“Every morning the doctor would come and tell me: Alexei, he brought a blackboard, let’s invent what word we can write on it. This made me desperate, because although I understood what the doctor wanted, I didn’t know how to find the word,” he revealed, adding: “Now I am a child whose legs shake when going down a ladder, but who thinks: ‘It’s a ladder! This is how you do it’.
According to the announcement by his team members last Thursday, traces of a Novichok-type neurotoxic chemical were detected in a “normal plastic water bottle” collected from the hotel room where Alexei Navalny was staying in Omsk, before ending falling during a flight from Siberia to Moscow on August 20.
A German military laboratory confirmed on September 3 that the Russian opponent was poisoned with a Novichok-like substance.
On Monday, the German government announced that two other laboratories, in France and Switzerland, confirmed the findings of the German experts. However, Russia said doctors treating Navalny in Omsk found no evidence that he had been poisoned, attributing the collapse to metabolic problems.
Later, at the request of his family and colleagues, and with the permission of the German Government, Navalny was transferred to Berlin. The first tests carried out already showed signs of poisoning, for which the collaboration of a specialized laboratory of the German army was requested, which confirmed the first indications.
