A near-fatal attack on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the work of Russia’s internal security service, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.
Navalny was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok, a State Department spokesperson told The Hill. The Russian politician currently is recuperating in Germany.
“The United States believes that officers from the Russian Federal Security Service used a Novichok nerve agent to poison Mr. Navalny,” the spokesperson said. “There is no plausible explanation for Mr. Navalny’s poisoning other than Russian government involvement and responsibility.
“Of course, President [Vladimir] Putin and the Russian government would have us believe otherwise. Russia has suggested numerous, often contradictory, conspiracy theories. Let’s be clear: These types of conspiracy theories are nothing more than a means to deflect attention from the serious questions before the Russian government which it has yet to answer.”
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