Rouble falls as Germany says Alexei Navalny was definitely poisoned
Toxicology tests at a German military laboratory produced ‘unequivocal evidence’ that the Putin critic had been poisoned
02 September 2020 - 16:21
Berlin — A critic of Russian President Vladmir Putin, now in a coma and being treated in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned with a nerve agent of the Novichok family, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Toxicology tests of blood samples from Alexei Navalny conducted at a German military laboratory produced “unequivocal evidence” that the Russian opposition critic had been poisoned with Novichok, Steffen Seibert said in an e-mailed statement...
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