Russian diplomacy struck today at the “unacceptable” accusations of Paris and Berlin that denounced Russia’s “involvement and responsibility” in the poisoning of opponent Alexei Navalny and threatened Moscow with sanctions.
“Instead of cooperating legitimately with the Russian Federation to clarify the circumstances of what happened to this blogger, the German and French governments have chosen to address threats and blackmail attempts,” the Russian diplomacy said in a statement. .
German and French foreign ministers, Heiko Maas and Jean-Yves Le Drian, denounced in a joint statement a “terrible assassination attempt” by Alexei Navalny, a Kremlin critic and anti-corruption blogger, and said they had found “no other explanation.” plausible ”about his poisoning“ what a Russian responsibility and involvement ”.
A “statement unacceptable for its content and tone”, Russian diplomacy reacted in the statement, accusing Paris and Berlin of putting themselves in this way “at the head of an anti-Russian coalition” that according to Moscow is in the process of forming within the Union European Union.
“We believe that ‘business as usual’ with Paris and Berlin is no longer possible,” he warned.
Navalny, 44, who fell ill on board a plane in Siberia on August 20 and after receiving treatment for a few days in a Siberian hospital, was transferred to a Berlin hospital and continues to recover in the German capital.
According to three European laboratories, whose conclusions have been confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a neurotoxic agent from the Novitchok group, a substance designed by Soviet experts and for military purposes.
The Russian opponent directly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of fomenting his poisoning, a remark that Moscow considered “unacceptable”.
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