Alexei Navalny became suddenly and seriously ill during a flight across Russia two weeks agoGermany has claimed that the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent from the novichok family, the same group of Cold War-era toxins used in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury two years ago. Tests at a military laboratory proved “beyond doubt” that the poison was one of the novichok compounds, which are banned under international chemical weapons treaties, German officials said. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said: “The information about the attempted poisoning of one of the leading opposition politicians in Russia is disturbing ... Charité university hospital has had the Bundeswehr [Germany’s armed forces] examine the clinical evidence and now we have their findings: Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical agent from

Source: The Times September 02, 2020 15:33 UTC