Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he can now breathe unaided a month after he was allegedly poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. ‘Hello, this is Navalny,’ he said in a post on Instagram, appearing with his family in the Berlin hospital where he was flown for treatment after falling ill. ‘Yesterday I was able … Read more
The German government has said specialist laboratories in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. A German military laboratory previously confirmed the substance was present in his samples. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has also … Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been taken out of an induced coma and is responsive. Navalny, a fierce, high-profile critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was flown to Germany on August 22, two days after falling ill on a domestic flight in Russia. German chemical weapons experts say tests show that the 44-year-old Navalny … Read more
Novichok survivor Charlie Rowley says the latest poisoning has given ‘Russia strength to carry on and get away with it’. Charlie, 47, spent weeks in hospital and still suffers with the effects of his contact with the deadly substance. His partner Dawn Sturgess died after being exposed to the nerve agent in July 2018 following … Read more
The West is demanding answers from Moscow today after the ‘despicable and cowardly’ nerve agent attack on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. Britain said the Kremlin ‘has a clear case to answer’ while NATO demanded a ‘full and transparent’ investigation after a German military lab found that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the Soviet-era weapon used … Read more
Germany said today it has ‘unequivocal proof’ that Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. Tests carried out at a military laboratory found evidence of the Soviet-era chemical weapon that was used to attack Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018. Navalny remains in a coma in a Berlin hospital nearly two weeks … Read more
Judges have ruled that a coroner wrongly narrowed the scope of an inquest into the death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018 after handling a perfume bottle containing a chemical poison. Judges heard that the mother was exposed to the … Read more
Russian agents may have deliberately discarded a bottle of the deadly nerve agent novichok, used in the assassination attempt of former spy Sergei Skripal, in Salisbury in a bid to undermine UK security, the High Court today heard. The claim was made during a legal challenge by the family of Dawn Sturgess, 44, who died … Read more
The police officer who was poisoned by novichok has hit back at ‘negativity’ aimed at his wife on social media over her handling of the attack as portrayed in the second latest episode of the BBC drama ‘The Salisbury Poisonings’. Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey publicly defended his wife Sarah after her portrayal in the latest episode … Read more
‘He never puts the milk in first’: Novichok police officer Nick Bailey’s wife mocks BBC hit ‘The Salisbury Poisonings’ after it showed him making cup of tea ‘the wrong way round’ Sarah Bailey took to Twitter to tell viewers her husband never puts milk in first During the scene, viewers watch actor Rafe Spall make … Read more