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Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, expressed the view that European countries should stop investing in the Russian economy after the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnik, called on the FRG authorities to introduce a three-month embargo on Russia’s oil and gas supplies in response to the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Write about this “Deutsche Welle” with reference to the closed tape agency dpa.
In an interview with the agency, Melnik said that the “knights of the Kremlin” deserved a tough response to the Navalny poisoning. According to the diplomat, stopping the construction of Nord Stream 2 is not enough. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime “should be deprived of the most important source of revenue for its aggressive policy,” Melnik said.
He also expressed the opinion that it is necessary to stop all European investments in the Russian economy.
Melnik stressed that the attempt to poison Navalny with the help of chemical weapons of mass destruction is a “blow to the face” for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the federal government and the public. In his opinion, Putin has already clearly shown that Berlin’s reaction to his previous actions plays no role for him.
On August 20, the scheduled plane in which Navalny was returning to Moscow after a trip to Siberia, urgently landed in Omsk due to the probable poisoning of the politician.
Navalny was on toxic resuscitation ambulance n. 1 of the hospital in Omsk unconscious, was connected to a ventilator. Navalny’s main work diagnosis at the Russian hospital was called metabolic disorder.
Initially, Russian doctors did not allow the opponent to go to Germany for treatment, but later gave permission for transportation. – On the morning of August 22, Navalny was airlifted to the Charite clinic in Berlin.
Traces of a nerve agent similar in composition to Novichok were found on Navalny’s body. This is stated in a statement by the representative of the German government Steffen Seibert.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has warned that any poisoning of a person with nerve agents would be considered the use of chemical weapons.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Germany’s claims about the Navalny poisoning were not supported by facts.
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