Inventor of the "weapon of terror": Navalny has no hope of survival and will be handicapped at best

Alexei Navalny was evacuated to a German hospital late last month and is now in a medical coma.

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Russian chemist, Willy Mirzanov, said Novishuk's nerve gas was not giving its victims a chance to survive, and expressed doubts about the ability of opponent Alexei Navalny to recover and return to his normal life.

Mirzanov, who was a member of the team that developed the gas called the "weapon of terror" in the early 1970s, explained in an interview with

that the version of the poison used against Navalny was different from the version used against the former Russian agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter. .

He explained that Navalny had targeted his digestive system, while Scribal and his daughter were targeted through the skin.

 Mirzanov worked from 1965 until 1992 at the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, which was run by the military and the KGB.

When he left the institute in 1992, he was the first person to speak publicly about the Novichok group of toxins.

 The chemist explained that when the target did not die, it meant that he had given a non-lethal dose, but that it left him, at best, disabled and unable to function.

He indicated that he doubted doctors said Navalny would recover from the poison.

He revealed that the neurotransmitter "acetylcholine" is responsible for transmitting signals in the brain, which controls many functions, such as vision, muscles and metabolism.

But as a result of this toxicity, these connections can be damaged or destroyed irreversibly.

He said that people who were exposed to gas in the Soviet period never returned to work.

Regarding the Russian authorities' delay in transporting Navalny to Germany, he explained that it was logical, as the human body is trying to get rid of the poison.

The longer he stays in Russia, the less poison is in his body, although the effects remain visible in his system.

At the end of the interview, the chemist expressed his guilt for having participated in the development of gas, and explained that he had not imagined that gas would turn into a weapon of terror used against civilians, and he and his colleagues at the time believed that they were serving their country.

A new crisis erupted between Russia and the West, after Germany confirmed this week that there was "conclusive evidence" that the most prominent opponent of the Kremlin master, Vladimir Putin, had been poisoned with the nerve gas Novichok developed during the Soviet era.

Western leaders and many Russians expressed grave concern over what Navalny's allies said was the first detected use of chemical weapons against a leader in the Russian opposition on the country's soil.

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