“Not being experts in the field of toxicology, we consider it necessary to draw attention to the numerous inconsistencies regarding this case,” the permanent mission said in a statement.

There are nine questions in the document.

The first is whether there is any sense for the Russian authorities to "poison" Navalny with military nerve agent in a city of half a million and then do everything possible to release him for treatment in Germany, where Novichok can be identified.

Also, diplomats are perplexed why Berlin is showing such resistance in response to a request to provide the competent authorities with the test results or simply publish them if it is so sure that it is about poisoning.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to stop politicizing the situation with Navalny.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, noted the inappropriateness of unfounded accusations.