Navalny was transferred to a hospital in Germany in August after collapsing on a domestic flight, according to Reuters. The German government said test results in Germany, France and Sweden have determined that Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok.
Novichok is a deadly nerve agent that was developed by the Soviet military in the 1970s and 1980s. The West asked the Kremlin to explain it, but Moscow claims it has yet to find evidence that Navalny was poisoned.
Photo of the political opposition Alexei Navalny at the Charite Hospital in Berlin (Germany)
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Recently, investigative reporting website Bellingcat (UK) and Russian news site The Insider, Der Spiegel (Germany) and CNN (US) cooperated to make an investigative report and collected a lot of information. Flight data and mobile navigation related to the Navalny case.
The new joint investigation report was released on December 14. Consequently, investigative reporters said they had identified a group of assassins believed to belong to the Russian Federal Security Administration (FSB) that had tracked Navalny for many years, while naming officers. intelligence and the laboratory containing the poison Novichok.
Many people close to President Putin have been embargoed by the EU and the UK after allegedly poisoning politicians.
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During his annual press conference on December 17, Putin rejected this investigative report, saying that all the information was fabricated and provided by the US intelligence services. “It was a trick to attack the leaders of Russia,” Putin said, according to Reuters.
President Putin pointed out that US intelligence supported Mr. Navalny, so the FSB observing this man was the right thing to do. “However, that does not at all mean that Mr. Navalny should be poisoned. Who needs it? If someone wants to poison, he will kill him, “Putin added.
