Sergey Lavrov
Doctors in the Berlin clinic “Charite” did not find any chemical warfare agents in the analyzes of Alexei Navalny. This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, RIA Novosti reports.
“This is just a mockery of common sense. For all this, in my opinion, is understandable. (…) But, apparently, the Russophobic fuse has already become so unstoppable that they simply cannot be guided by common sense, “Lavrov commented on the Navalny case.
The minister recalled that no chemical warfare agents were found in the Charite clinic at Navalny, according to experts from the armed forces and independent laboratories. Lavrov also noted that Russia is not aware of whether the French and Swedish experts, who, among other things, confirmed the presence of poisons, themselves took tests from Navalny. At the same time, the Foreign Minister expressed confidence that the European Union would eventually resort to the instrument of sanctions against Russia for the use of chemical weapons.
Navalny became ill on August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. In the first two days, doctors from the Omsk hospital helped him. They also introduced him to an artificial coma. On August 22, the patient was sent to a clinic in Berlin.
On September 2, the German government announced that military toxicologists of the German Armed Forces had found traces of a substance from the Novichok group in Navalny's body, and called on the Russian government to respond to this information. Russian doctors noted that they had not identified any poisons. In September, Navalny was brought out of a coma and discharged. Rehabilitation will take several weeks, after which he plans to return to Russia.
