On Wednesday, a spokesman for the German government announced that Alexei Navalny, a notable critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent.
Alexei Navalny, age 44, was airlifted to Germany after he collapsed on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow in Siberia late last month.
Steffen Seibert said in a statement that blood tests conducted at a German military laboratory showed the “doubtless presence of a nerve agent from the Novichok group” in Navalny’s system.
Seibert in the statement:
“The federal government will inform its partners in the EU and NATO of the results of the investigation,”
“It will discuss an appropriate joint response with the partners in the light of the Russian response.”
Produced by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, Novichok is a lethal group of nerve agents, which was reportedly used by Russia in the British city of Salisbury in 2018 to poison former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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