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German authorities believe that one of the Russian intelligence agents who followed opposition leader Alexei Navalny sprinkled poison in tea or put it in a cup, Die Zeit reported.
According to the plan of the poisoners of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, he was going to die on the plane. This was reported on September 9 by the daily Die Zeit, citing its own sources.
The publication discovered that Navalny was poisoned with a new type of poisonous substance “Novichok”, more dangerous than its previous variations. He survived thanks to a string of happy accidents: the actions of the pilot, who made the decision to urgently land the plane, and the doctors who immediately injected him with atropine, reporters write.
In his opinion, an operation with such a new poison could only be carried out by the Russian special service: ordinary criminals could synthesize it. I could not, and the operation of foreign special services on Russian territory would have been impossible due to the fact that Navalny was constantly monitored.
Die Zeit draws “a plausible conclusion: it was the Kremlin that gave the order to remove unwanted criticism from the road.”
Specialists from the Bundeswehr Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology found the remains of a poisonous substance on Navalny’s hands and on the neck of a bottle of water from which he was drinking. German authorities believe that one of the FSB agents who followed the politician sprayed poison in the tea or applied it to the cup, the newspaper reported.
The regular plane in which Navalny was returning to Moscow after a trip to Siberia, on August 20, landed urgently in Omsk due to the probable poisoning of the politician. The opposition team believes that a toxic substance was mixed in their tea.
Navalny was unconscious in the toxic intensive care unit of the emergency hospital number 1 in Omsk, he was connected to a ventilator. Navalny’s main diagnosis in a Russian hospital was called a metabolic disorder.
Initially, Russian doctors did not allow the opponent to go to Germany for treatment, but then gave permission for transport: on the morning of August 22, Navalny was airlifted to the Charite clinic in Berlin.
On August 24, German doctors announced that Navalny had been poisoned. The clinical data indicated intoxication with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. They include organophosphate compounds, Kommersant wrote.
On September 2, the German government announced that traces of a substance similar in composition to Novichok had been found in Navalny’s body. The biological material extracted from the politician was examined by a special laboratory of the German armed forces. The Berlin official condemned the attack on the opposition leader and demanded an explanation from the Russian authorities.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Germany’s claims about the Navalny poisoning were not supported by facts. Russian doctors suggested that Germany create a group of experts on the Navalny poisoning.
Doctors at the Charite clinic announced on September 7 that Navalny had been brought out of a medical coma and disconnected from the ventilator. The Russian politician began to react to the verbal stimuli.
On September 8, the G7 foreign ministers declared that any use of chemical weapons anywhere, at any time and under any circumstances is unacceptable and contrary to international norms. They asked Russia to urgently identify those responsible for the Navalny poisoning.
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