Germany: Putin Nemesis Navalny Poisoned With Novichok Nerve Agent

By Tsarizm Staff | September 2, 2020

Today the German government confirmed ‘without a doubt’ that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, currently in a coma in a German hospital after being airlifted from Siberia, was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok family, similar to the Skripal poisonings in England.

“The Russian government is urged to explain the incident … the substance inNavalny’s organism is undoubtedly from the Novichok family,” said government spokesman Steffen Seibert in a statement, reported The Moscow Times.

Germany says tests performed on samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny found the presence of the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Putin, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow on Aug 20. https://t.co/lgeSBLKl7S ^[2]

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 2, 2020 ^[3]

Reacting to the news, Navalny aide Leonid Volkov linked the poisoning to Russian President Vladimir Putin

“In 2020, poisoning Navalny with Novichok is like leaving (Putin’s) autograph at the crime scene,” Volkov wrote on Twitter.

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This piece originally appeared on Tsarizm.com ^[6] and is used by permission.