Russia has insisted that the West provide test results for the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny, as well as former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. This was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, quoted by TASS, reports News.bg.
In her Telegram channel, Zakharova recalled that in 2020, when Navalny was taken to the Berlin Charite clinic after alleged poisoning with “Novichok“, his entourage did not request access to the laboratory results. "They took the German lab technicians at their word," she wrote, adding that Russian authorities' calls for data had gone unheeded.
The spokeswoman also criticized the visit of then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Navalny's hospital room, despite, she said, NATO's assertion that such substances were lethal even at a distance.
"Five years later, Navalny was allegedly poisoned again, and this time the same foreign agents unanimously demanded results from Western clinics for 2024," Zakharova said. She stressed that Moscow also demanded this data, as well as information about the investigations into the attacks on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipelines. and “Nord Stream 2“.
Meanwhile, the wife of the late opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya announced this week that independent Western laboratories had confirmed through biological samples that her husband had been poisoned. Alexei Navalny died on February 16, 2024, in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle. The Kremlin rejects Navalnaya's accusations that he was murdered.
In the context of the topic of “Nord Stream“ An Italian court has ordered the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian suspected of coordinating attacks on gas pipelines in 2022. The man, identified as Serhiy K., was arrested near Rimini last month but has now appealed the decision.
The explosions along the gas pipeline route, described by both Moscow and the West as sabotage, have had serious consequences - disrupting Russian supplies to Europe, increasing tensions over the war in Ukraine and limiting the continent's energy resources. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attacks, and Kiev denies involvement.