French President Emmanuel Macron held a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. RIA Novosti writes about it.
The heads of state discussed the situation with Alexei Navalny. Macron said that the analysis of France shows that the Russian was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group. He called on Putin “to clarify the issue of the investigation.”
In addition, the presidents discussed the situation in Belarus, where mass protests have been going on for more than a month. According to the French leader, the republic needs to support a political settlement of the situation.
Earlier, the official representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany, Steffen Seibert, spoke about the independent laboratories of France and Sweden who confirmed the presence of Novichok in Navalny's analyzes. He called on Russia “to provide explanations about these events.”
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 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 say that no poisons were found in the patient's analyzes. On September 10, it became known that Navalny had completely recovered.
