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The inventor of the nerve agent novicek, Vladimir Uglev, said he could not sleep and had regrets since the German government announced that the leader of the Russian opposition, Aleksei Navalny, had been poisoned with this chemical weapon developed during the Soviet Union, reports EFE. Agerpres.
“I have a sin on my conscience,” Uglev said in a telephone conversation he had on Friday in the Russian city of Anapa, on the Black Sea, with the Spanish news agency.
Vladimir Uglev, 73, said he devoted his entire scientific career to developing what he now calls “a weapon of mass destruction,” on which he worked for 15 years in a laboratory in the region. Saratov (part of southeastern Europe from Russia).
“I did it for military purposes”
“I was the first to create a rookie guy. I was in December 1975“Said the scientist. He also said that none of those involved in the top-secret project thought that the powerful neurotoxin” will be used as a terrorist weapon. “
“I did it for military purposes. I knew it, like Andrei Sakharov did when he developed the hydrogen bomb. But in those days they didn’t ask you for things, they gave you orders,” Uglev said.
He says he fully understands Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the world’s most widely used rifle, the AK-47, and who, before he died, confessed to the Orthodox patriarch and his family that he felt guilty for creating a weapon that kills people. of all the world “.
Navalny went into a coma in Omsk, not on a plane
Vladimir Uglev cannot ignore the fact that Aleksei Navalny, hospitalized in a coma in a Berlin hospital, could be a “new victim” of the novice. He has fewer and fewer “doubts” about it, although in the first hours after the German government’s announcement he considered it unlikely that Navalny had been poisoned with this agent because the symptoms did not seem to coincide.
“She went into a coma immediately. But circumstances have completely changed. We didn’t have the data that we have now. Aleksei went into a coma not on the plane, but in Omsk,” says Uglev.
The Germans still need to publicize the formula, which is still known by heart, because, recalls Uglev, they were the first to develop organophosphates for military purposes.
Four Novice Agents. One tenth of a drop is enough
“What we still don’t know is what type of novice was used,” says Uglev, in the context in which they are found. four Noviciok agents, three in powder form and one in liquid form.
The inventor Noviciok recalls that in the case of the poisoning of the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Iulia, in the United Kingdom, the British succeeded in showing that the attackers actually used this neurotoxin. “The British managed to draw the whole picture. In that case, other people were affected, not just Skripal,” he stresses.
Uglev believes that “if it is true that (Navalny) put (noviciok) in tea at the airport,” they most likely tried to poison him with “no more than two or three milligrams”, in other words, “With a tenth of a drop “.
“I don’t know why he didn’t die. Maybe he didn’t drink all the tea.”
“I don’t know why he didn’t die. Maybe because he quickly slipped into a coma or because the doctors gave him an antidote. Or maybe he didn’t drink all the tea,” he speculates.
The Russian researcher says that the novice agent could only be produced “by a very wealthy state or entity.”
“Noviciok cannot be produced in a shed. It is a very complicated process. Henry Ford did not develop his inventions in a garage,” he said.
Vladimir Uglev became the “enemy of the people”. It is supervised by the FSB
When asked why he thinks the Russian government continues to deny the rookie, Uglev claims that the problem is out of reach. “It’s like asking a normal person to understand a schizophrenic,” he said.
Since abandoning his scientific career in 1990, Uglev has defined himself as “an enemy of the people.” In fact, his grandfather was a victim of repression in the 1930s.
Uglev became angry with the secret services in 1993 when, together with Vil Mirzaianov, now in exile in the United States, he denounced Russia for continuing to conduct chemical weapons experiments despite its commitment to the West. destroy.
“Since then, I have been under the control of the relevant services,” Uglev said, referring to the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Uglev has assured that he will never make public the formula necessary to produce novicek.
In 2018, shortly after giving interviews about the Skripal case, in which the neurotoxin novicek was also used, Vladimir Uglev was hit by a car on the pedestrian crossing of his hometown, Anapa.
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