The German Charite Hospital in Berlin said today, Monday, that the prominent Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was released from the intensive care unit, and that he recovered from his medically induced coma and was disconnected from the ventilator, and on the other hand, British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab summoned the Russian ambassador in London to record the concern Deep about poisoning Navalny with nerve gas.

The German Hospital added, in a statement issued this evening, that the condition of Navalny, 45, has improved, and that he is currently responding to verbal stimuli, and said that it is still too early to assess the possible long-term effects of his severe poisoning.

Toxicology tests, conducted in a German army laboratory, showed that Navalny was poisoned with the nerve gas "Novichok", which was developed in the Soviet era in the 1970s and 1980s.

Close to Navalny, a staunch opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that the use of "Novichok" showed that the Russian security services alone were responsible for the attack and poisoning, but the Kremlin vehemently denied this.

Germany last week said it had "conclusive evidence" that Navalny had been poisoned with "Novichok", the same nerve gas that was used by Russia's secret services in the attack on the former Russian agent Sergey Skripal, who had a similar accident in the British city of Salisbury in 2018.

The Kremlin responded


In return,

Kremlin

spokesman Dmitry Peskov said today that "all attempts to link Russia in any way with what happened with Navalny are unacceptable in our view," describing these attempts as futile.

Russian officials accused Germany of being slow in publishing the results of its investigations, despite a request from the Russian Public Prosecutor's Office, and Peskov said that his country had not received these results and is waiting for Berlin to do so in the next few days.

On Sunday, Germany issued an ultimatum to Moscow to impose sanctions if the latter did not provide clarifications in the coming days on the Navalny poisoning case.

A spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that she does not subjugate the imposition of sanctions on the joint "Nord Stream 2" gas pipeline between Berlin and Moscow, in response to the poisoning incident.

Angela Merkel does not rule out consequences for the "Nord Stream 2" gas pipeline project if Moscow does not provide the expected answers to the poisoning of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.


* Nord Stream is the name of a pipeline to transport gas from Vyborg in Russia to Greifswald in Germany and it is the longest undersea pipeline in the world pic.twitter.com/7CSfPVb1h5

- Maryame Mohammed (@RaMaryame) September 7, 2020

The prominent Russian dissident fell ill after boarding a plane in the Siberian region of southern Russia last month, as close to him indicated that they suspected that he had consumed a cup of tea that contained a toxic substance at the airport.

He underwent treatment initially in a hospital in Siberia, where doctors said they had not found any toxic substances in his blood, before he was transferred to Berlin on August 22.

A British move


In a related context, the British Foreign Office said that Minister Raab summoned the Russian ambassador in London Andre Kelly to inform him that it is "absolutely unacceptable to use a prohibited chemical weapon" and that "violence is directed again against a prominent Russian opposition figure," referring to Navalny.

The British minister emphasized that Russia must respond in this case and that it has international obligations, noting that what happened was on Russian soil and against a Russian citizen. Rap ​​called for Moscow to conduct a full and transparent criminal investigation into Navalny's poisoning, stressing that Britain "will work with its partners, including In this through the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to hold the perpetrators accountable. "