Mike Pompeo
The US wanted to involve more countries in the investigation of the case of Alexei Navalny. This was stated by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, TASS reports. The American side, he said, wants to find out both the circumstances of his alleged poisoning and how such events are generally possible.
“We are concerned about what is happening. This poisoning requires a thorough and complete investigation. The United States is in favor of a large number of countries participating in it, ”the agency quoted Pompeo as saying.
The politician said that the investigation should establish how the poisonous substance got into Navalny's body. “The investigation should also make it possible to understand how such events can happen in general,” he added.
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.
