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The head of the German foreign intelligence service revealed, in a secret meeting, that the novice-type nerve agent used to poison Kremlin opponent Aleksei Navalny, currently hospitalized in intensive care in a Berlin hospital, was stronger than the variants. . used previously, states “Der Spiegel”.
The German magazine, quoted by Reuters, writes that a delegation from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has already paid a visit to the Berlin hospital where Navalny is hospitalized.
The nerve agent Noviciok was also used against former Russian double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in 2018 in England. According to the British authorities, GRU, the intelligence service of the Russian army, is the main suspect. This case led to the establishment of Western sanctions against Russia.
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Russia Says Witness in Navalny Case Left Country
At the same time, transport police in Tomsk, where Navalny was before boarding a plane to Moscow, said they had set a schedule for Aleksei Navalny’s trips to Siberia and what he drank before he fell ill on the plane last month. , and is now trying to locate a witness who allegedly left the country, writes Agerpres.
The Russian Interior Ministry said in a statement that police had questioned five of the six people who accompanied Navalny on his trip to Siberia, and that they were currently looking for the sixth, Marina Pevcih, a British resident who will go to Germany on the 22nd. of August.
Hospitalized in a coma in late August in Siberia after suffering a plane crash, Navalny (44) was transferred to Berlin, where doctors concluded that he had been poisoned with a novicek-class nerve agent, conceived in the Soviet period for military purposes.
Berlin and its western partners are demanding explanations from Moscow, which flatly denies the allegations and has so far only initiated preliminary checks on the case, without opening an investigation.
Russian police announced Friday that they would ask Germany to allow the questioning of Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny.
Aleksei Navalny has emerged from an induced coma and is receptive to the orders of doctors, representatives of the Berlin hospital where the Russian opponent is hospitalized announced on Monday.
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