Navalny poisoning: the opponent was poisoned with a new species of “Novichok”

According to the plan of the poisoners, Navalny was supposed to die on the plane / illustration REUTERS

The leader of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a new type of poison “Novichok”, which can only be accessed by special services.

This is reported by the German magazine Die Zeit, citing unidentified sources.

According to the publication, this version of “Novichok” is more deadly and acts more slowly than the versions that were previously known.

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According to the poisoners’ plan, Navalny was supposed to die on the plane, but he survived “thanks to a string of happy accidents”: the actions of the pilot who immediately landed the plane and the doctors who immediately injected him with atropine.

According to Die Zeit, only the Russian special service could carry out an operation with such a new poison.

“This leaves only one plausible conclusion: it was the Kremlin that gave the order to get the unwanted politician off the road,” Die Zeit believes.

The remains of the substance, according to sources in the publication, German doctors found on the neck of a bottle of water, from which Navalny drank, and in his hands. According to Die Zeit, German authorities believe that one of the agents who followed the politician could have inflicted poison on the surface of the cup from which the politician was drinking tea, or sprayed poison on the finished tea.

Navalny was poisoned: what is known

• Navalny fell ill on the plane in which he was flying from Tomsk to Moscow. Due to this, the plane urgently landed at Omsk airport. At Navalny headquarters, Alexei is believed to have been poisoned by something mixed with tea.
• The politician was evacuated from the Omsk hospital on August 22. Now he is in a German clinic. On August 24, Germany confirmed the poisoning of the opponent.
• On September 2, it emerged that experts from the Bundeswehr laboratory found traces of poison from the Novichok group on the body of Alexei Navalny. Therefore, Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent.
• On September 4, it became known that experts from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the German Armed Forces in Munich found traces of a toxic substance from the Novichok group in Navalny’s blood, urine and skin.
• European politicians have repeatedly called on Russia to investigate the Navalny poisoning.
• On September 4, the ambassadors of the 30 NATO member countries in an emergency meeting demanded an international investigation into the Navalny poisoning.
• Russian doctors deny that Navalny was poisoned by Novichok, calling the diagnosis “fantastic.” According to the chief toxicologist of the Omsk region, Navalny had “not an intoxication, but a disease: metabolic syndrome.”

What is the “rookie” poison

• “Novichok” is a group of organophosphates with nerve agents. The Soviet Union led its development in the 1970s and 1980s.
• The group “Novichok” includes more than a hundred toxic substances of various structures. The most dangerous of them are “Novichok-5” and “Novichok-7”. They are eight times more toxic than VX gas, the most poisonous of all substances artificially synthesized by humans.
• The “novice” affects the nervous system, as a result of which the victim of poisoning cannot breathe and experiences very severe pain.

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