Navalny mocks suggestion that he poisoned himself

Opposition politician Alexey Navalny wrote a sarcastic post Tuesday following reports that Russian President Vlimir Putin h allegedly said Navalny could have poisoned himself.

French daily Le Monde reported Tuesday, citing unnamed sources, that Putin suggested to French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call that Navalny may have poisoned himself and that he h faked illnesses in past.

" ultimate goal of my canny plan was to die in Omsk hospital and end up in an Omsk morgue, where y would have determined my cause of death as 'he lived long eugh,'" Navalny wrote in a tongue-in-cheek post Tuesday.

"But Putin outplayed me," he ded.

opposition figure was earlier evacuated from Siberia to a clinic in Berlin after falling ill in an airplane on August 22.

He spent over three weeks in a coma and was finally discharged Wednesday after regaining motor skills and his condition improved.