“In connection with the categorical assertions that toxic chemical compounds of nerve-paralytic action, which in the West are called“ Novice ”, were developed in our country, it is necessary to recall the following.
For a number of years, specialists from many Western countries and specialized NATO structures have been working on the compounds included in this extensive group of chemicals, ”the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
They recalled that in the United States "developers of technologies for their combat use have been officially issued more than one and a half hundred patents."
On September 4, the Foreign Ministers of Germany and France, following the meeting, published a joint statement on the situation with Navalny.
They stated the importance of an "explanation" from Russia in connection with the discovery in Germany of data on Navalny's poisoning with a substance from the Novichok group.
Russian Ambassador to Great Britain Andrei Kelin called the situation around Navalny a provocation aimed at disrupting the process of improving relations between Russia and Europe.
The Kremlin noted that no toxic substances were found in Navalny's body before he was taken to Berlin.