The video showed him speaking on the phone with one of the alleged operatives. Bellingcat and other media outlets identified the man Mr Navalny said he spoke to as Konstantin Kudryavtsev, a trained chemical weapons specialist. The clothes Mr Navalny was wearing when he was admitted to hospital in a coma have not been returned to him. While posing as a Security Council aide, the politician asked “what went wrong” and why Mr Navalny survived the poisoning. He said that means Mr Navalny “relies on the support of US special services”.

Source: Irish Independent December 21, 2020 17:15 UTC