Moscow, Russia.
Russian president Vladimir Putin stated on Thursday that his number one opponent, Alexéi Navalni, has not been poisoned for their special services, because otherwise there would be death.
“The patient in the Berlin clinic has the support of the American special services. And for that reason he must be monitored by the special services. But that doesn’t mean you had to poison him “, said.
“If we had wanted to, what was needed was done (Naval would be dead), ”he said at his annual press conference.
Putin refuses to pronounce the name of his slanderer, referring to him in relation to his place hospitalization after his alleged poisoning.
The Russian president rejected a recent investigation by various media outlets, including Bellingcat’s website, CNN y The mirror, who puts the responsibility for the poisoning with the FSB, Russian secret services, heirs of the KGB, of what Putin He was a chef for a while.
“This is not a research, but the legitimation of content (prepared) by the US special services, ”he said.
According to research, based on the analysis of telephone data and online information leaks Russia, FSB agents, specialized in chemical weapons, They have been following the opponent since 2017.
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They attended August 20 in Tomsk, city Siberian where did it come poisoning, according to this lengthy study.
However, the article does not establish direct contact between these agents and the adversary, nor does it prove a step towards the action or an order given.
Russia repeatedly denies that Naval has been poisoned in Tomsk, and claims to be the Novitchok-type poison, detected by western laboratories after his hospitalization Germany, was not present in his body when he was treated Russia.