“I claim that Putin was behind the crime, and I have no further versions of what happened,” Navalny told Der Spiegel in an interview due Thursday.
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The Kremlin denied any involvement in the incident, saying it had not yet seen evidence of a crime.
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“You don’t feel any pain, but you know you’re dying,” Navalny said of the moment the poison began to affect him. He added that he would return to Russia. “My task now is to remain fearless. And I’m not afraid! ” he added.
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Navalnyj was flown from Russia to Berlin in August after collapsing during a domestic flight from Tomsk to Moscow. Due to Navalny, the plane had to land in Omsk, where the opposition was hospitalized and then transported to the Berlin hospital Charité. He was treated here for 32 days before being released last month. Navalny praised the work of aircraft pilots and paramedics in Omsk. They knew at the airport that it could be poisoning and gave him atropine.
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Alexei Navalnyj has already been released from the hospital.
Photo: Uncredited, ČTK / AP
He is now recovering in an unknown place. It is expected that the leaders of the Russian opposition will take at least another month to regain fitness so that he can return to his homeland and resume political activity.
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