Moscow, Russia.
The Russian president Vladimir Putin declared on Thursday that his number one opponent, Alexéi Navalni, Had not been poisoned for their special services because otherwise they would have to death.
“The patient at the Berlin clinic has the support of the American special services. And for that he must be monitored by the special services. But that doesn’t mean it was necessary poison “, He said.
“If we had wanted this, then the necessary thing would have been done (Naval would be dead) “, he specified in his annual press conference.
To put he refuses to pronounce the name of his detractor, and refers to him in connection with the place of his hospitalization after his presumption poisoning.
The Russian president rejected a recent investigation by various media outlets, including the Bellingcat site, CNN and The Mirror, which attributes the responsibility for the event to the FSB, the Russian secret services, Heirs of the KGB, of what To put was boss for a while-.
“This is not a research, but the legitimation of (prepared) content by American special services, ”he said.
according to research, Based on the analysis of telephone data and online information leaks a Russia, FSB agents, specializing in chemical weapons, have been following the opponent since 2017.
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They were present on August 20 in Tomsk, city Siberian where the poisoning, According to this long research.
However, the article does not establish any direct contact between these agents and the opponent, nor any evidence of a step in the act or of a given order.
Russia has repeatedly denied that Naval has been poisoned in Tomsk, and claims that the Novitchok-type toxic substance, detected by western laboratories after his hospitalization in Germany, was not present in his body when he was treated in Russia.