Novichok nerve agent used in Alexey Navalny poisoning, says German government
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group, the German government said Wednesday.
Posted — UpdatedNavalny, who fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow last month, is being treated at a Berlin hospital.
In a statement, German government spokesman Steffen Siebert said it was "startling" that "Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent in Russia."
"The federal government condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms."
"We hope for a full recovery of Alexei Navalny," the statement added.
In 2018, former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was the target of a Novichok nerve agent attack in the English cathedral city of Salisbury.
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