Kremlin spokesman doesn't call Navalny by name

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday avoided naming Alexei Navalny during his statement about suspected poisoning of Russian opposition leer who remains in a coma at a German hospital.

In a phone interview with Peskov, journalists h asked him why he h t mentioned Navalny by his name during Wednesday's statement.

Peskov responded that Navalny is: "a patient" who was "currently sick."

Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator who is one of Putin’s fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on Thursday and was taken to a hospital in Siberian city of Omsk after plane me an emergency landing.

Over weekend, he was transferred to Charité hospital in Berlin, where doctors on Monday said y have found indications of “cholinesterase inhibitors” in his system.

suggestion that Navalny was poisoned has been vehemently rejected in Russia, where a number of Kremlin critics fell victims to suspected poisonings in recent years, since last week.