The German government says tests performed on samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny showed the presence of Novichok, the Soviet-era nerve agent.
Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on Aug. 20 and was taken to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk after the plane made an emergency landing.
He was later transferred to Berlin's Charite hospital, where doctors last week said there were indications that he had been poisoned.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesperson, Steffen Seibert, said in a statement Wednesday that testing by a special German military laboratory had shown proof of "a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group."
Novichok was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Britain. It is a cholinesterase inhibitor, part of the class of substances that doctors at the Charite initially identified in Navalny.
Seibert said the German government will inform its partners in the European Union and NATO about the test results. He said that it will consult with its partners in light of the Russian response "on an appropriate joint response."
Navalny's allies in Russia have insisted he was deliberately poisoned by the country's authorities, accusations that the Kremlin rejected as "empty noise."
The Russian doctors who treated Navalny in Siberia have repeatedly contested the German hospital's conclusion, saying they had ruled out poisoning as a diagnosis and that their tests for poisonous substances came back negative.
LISTEN l Aug. 27 Front Burner on Navalny's rise, poisoning:
tinyurlis.gdu.nuclck.ruulvis.netshrtco.detny.im
مقالات مشابه
- Coronavirus: اولین مسافران پیاده قرنطینه الماس شاهزاده کشتی کروز
- راهکارهای حرفهای برای افزایش بازدید سایت و فروش
- 'ما هیچ تمرین صحبت کردن در مورد مسابقه در این کشور است.' کلودیا رنکین در امتیاز سفید و جدید بازی کمک
- هیچ برنده و در عین حال در آیووا. مسائل فنی تاخیر دموکراتیک حزبی نتایج
- استرالیا مجری تلویزیون می گوید که او ممکن است بدست Coronavirus از تام هنکس همسر ریتا ویلسون
- آن 65 درجه در قطب جنوب امروز
- حداقل 16 کشته شده توسط داعش در ادلب سوریه, جنگ مانیتور می گوید
- تلویزیون دولتی سابق مصر قدرتمند حسنی مبارک مرده است در 91
- این COVID-19 coronavirus است که تنها 7 شناخته شده برای آلوده کردن انسان
- ترجمه تضمینی مقالات pubmed