'I called my killer. He confessed ': Navalny announced a conversation with one of the poisoners

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny released a video entitled “I called my killer. He admitted everything." In it, the politician claims that he spoke with one of his potential poisoners, Konstantin Kudryavtsev. Allegedly, he actually confirmed that they planned to kill Navalny. Writes about this «Medusa».

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According to Navalny, he called Kudryavtsev on the morning of December 14, a few hours before the publication of an investigation that stated that a group of FSB officers was behind his poisoning. Using a “program for pranksters,” Navalny claims, he hid his number, replacing it with a special switchboard number from which FSB officers call each other. He called at seven in the morning, hoping that when he saw a familiar service number, the person would pick up the phone and talk. Navalny said that almost everyone he called answered the phone, but they all quickly hung up.

“And then we had great luck,” he added. He allegedly spoke with Kudryavtsev for about 45 minutes. CNN notes that at first Navalny introduced himself by his own name, and only during a call to Kudryavtsev he pretended to be Assistant Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev.

Navalny asked why the special operation was not completed and he remained alive. The man, who Navalny said was Kudryavtsev, replied that the operation, in his opinion, was well planned, but failed due to a combination of circumstances. Navalny’s interlocutor suggested that the whole point was that the plane landed too quickly in Omsk and the prompt response of the ambulance team at the airport.

This person also told how he cleaned the politician's belongings from traces of a poisonous substance. Particular attention, he said, had to be paid to the seams on the inside of the panties. This order was allegedly given by the FSB officer Stanislav Makshakov, the alleged leader of the group that conducted the poisoning operation.

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In the conversation, Kudryavtsev also named the name of another participant in the operation, FSB officer Vasily Kalashnikov, an expert in the field of detecting metabolites of nerve agents in biological samples. Billing data showed that Makshakov called Kalashnikov after Navalny fell into a coma.

Navalny also published another conversation in which he talks with a certain “Mikhail”. According to Kudryavtsev, it was he who gave him the clothes to eliminate traces of Novichok (The Insider claims that this is Mikhail Evdokimov, head of the FSB regional department for combating terrorism). “Mikhail” did not discuss the special operation over an unencrypted telephone line, but confirmed that he gave Navalny’s clothes to Kudryavtsev.

Opinion of one of the Novichok developers

Vladimir Ugleev, one of the Soviet developers of the Novichok substance, suggested back in September that the politician was poisoned through his underwear.

“Based on the timing and dynamics, [it is most likely] that Navalny got up around six in the morning, took a shower, steamed his body, put on contaminated underpants, and already on the plane serious signs of poisoning began,” he told the Proekt publication.

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After the publication of Navalny's new video, Vladimir Uglev explained to Meduza the logic behind this assumption.

“I concluded that the poisonous substance was applied specifically to the underpants, because this is the most intimate item, which no one else except the owner can touch. And there is no risk of injury to strangers. There are, of course, also socks, but under the panties there is delicate and sensitive skin - not like, for example, on the heels,” he noted.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• On the morning of August 20, during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Alexei Navalny, felt sick on the plane. The liner made an emergency landing in Omsk, where Navalny was hospitalized in the emergency hospital No. 1, in the toxic intensive care unit. There the politician fell into a coma.
• Ex-FSB officer and opposition politician Gennady Gudkov toldwhy Navalny's associates and other politicians call the version of the involvement of the special services a priority, as well as how and with what the oppositionist could have been poisoned.
• August 21, the wife of Alexei Navalny Julia signed permission to transport her husband for treatment in Germany. On the morning of August 22, Navalny taken by plane to Berlin... He was still in a coma.
• The clinic where Navalny was taken confirmed the assumptions about his poisoning... Clinical studies have indicated a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors.
• Transportation of an opposition politician to Germany on a special medical plane paid for by Russian businessman Boris Ziminwho now lives in the United States.
• In the United States Department of Commerce сообщилиthat Washington has good reason to believe that the research institutes (SRIs) of the Russian Defense Ministry are involved in the development of chemical and biological weapons.
• September 4th German laboratory found traces of Novichok in Navalny's skin, blood and urine samples.
• On September 7, the Charite clinic, where Alexei Navalny was located, released a new message: politics brought out of an artificial coma and began to gradually disconnect from the ventilator.
• On September 10, it became known that Navalny completely recovered, memory and speech returned to him.
• September 15 politician for the first time since poisoning posted a photo on Instagram. The New York Times writes that he intends to return to Russia.
• On September 23rd, the clinic announced that Navalny was discharged... In total, he spent 32 days in a German hospital.
• In November, the US Congress condemned the poisoning of Navalny and called on the United States and the international community to impose sanctions against those involved.
• Mid-December results joint investigation Bellingcat, The Insider and CNN, with the participation of Der Spiegel, revealed that the attempt on the life of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Tomsk was the work of a group of FSB operatives.

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