According to RT radio, Russian scientists said Mr. Navalny could have died if he had been struck by the nerve agent Novichok, and denied the German allegations.
Germany said the military laboratory found traces of the Novichok group’s venom in Navalny patients, who were brought to Germany on August 22 for treatment. Navalny once drank a cup of tea and collapsed on a Russian domestic flight on August 20 and doctors in Siberia said no toxin was found in the patient’s blood.
Faced with information from the German side, two Russian scientists involved in the development of Novichok, Leonid Rink and Vladimir Uglev, flatly denied the allegations.
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According to them, Novichok is extremely poisonous and there is no way that Mr. Navalny can survive if he is poisoned. Furthermore, Mr. Uglev pointed out that the persons who came into contact with Mr. Navalny when he collapsed, including the passengers of the flight, the emergency personnel …, would have been poisoned if Novichok had been used.
“The symptoms are not the same at all. He may have rested for a long time, ”explained Mr. Rink.
Furthermore, Mr. Uglev said that it is impossible for Mr. Navalny to be hit by poisons such as sarin, soman or Novichok.
According to the media, Uglev and Rink belong to the group of experts that founded the Novichok chemical weapons program of the former Soviet Union. In 1991, the two worked for a branch in Volsk at the State Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology in the Saratov region.