Russia says ‘disinformation’ over Navalny’s poisoning being used for new sanctions

Russia’s foreign ministry on September 9 reportedly said that a ‘disinformation campaign’ over alleged poisoning of Putin-critic Alexei Navalny was being used to promote new sanctions against Moscow. alleged use of Soviet-era nerve nt to poison Russian opposition leer angered Western countries. European Commission h said that any new sanctions on Russia could be imposed only after an investigation could find out perpetrator. 

Moscow, on or hand, in a reported statement said that ‘ongoing massive disinformation campaign’ aims at ‘mobilising sanctions sentiment’ and has thing to do with Navalny’s health. A high-profile critic of Russian President Vlimir Putin, Navalny is currently coalescing in a Berlin hospital. He is w responding to speech and has been out of coma, Charite hospital at Berlin anunced in a statement. Last week, German health authorities h confirmed ‘unequivocal proof of presence of a chemical nerve nt from vichok group’ after Navalny’s toxicological reports came out. 

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Russia rejects accusations 

However, Kremlin openly rejected accusations that Russian leer Putin was responsible for poisoning of his political rival Alexei Navalny. In an dress to press, Kremlin said re were grounds for sanctions to be imposed against Moscow or criminal investigations. It furr trashed allegations of ‘intentional poisoning’ of Navalny by Russian authorities.  Russian government accused Russian doctors and pro-Kremlin media of fabrication of victim’s deliberate poisoning narrative that outrd Navalny's allies who held Kremlin responsible for poisoning critic.

Meanwhile, Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel called for a thorough Russian investigation as EU, NATO, and several Western governments have asked Moscow to provide an explanation. Russia accused Berlin of failing to share ‘solid evidence’, while German Chancellor in a presser anunced that a German military lab identified and confirmed that poison in Navalny's system is a variant of vichok, a Soviet-era nerve nt. EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell asked Russia to cooperate with an international probe, asserting, that 27-nation bloc would t rule out sanctions.

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