The Kremlin has accused colleagues of opposition leader Alexei Navalny of hampering a Russian investigation by taking items from his hotel room out of the country. 9News
Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the German lab conducted tests on "various samples from Mr. Navalny," but neither she nor other German officials haven't given details of what samples were tested. The German government had no comment Friday on the Navalny team's statement that Novichok was found on the water bottle taken from Russia.Germany has said that independent tests by labs in France and Sweden backed up the military lab's findings.
The Kremlin reiterated that before Navalny's transfer to Charite Hospital in Berlin, Russian labs and a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk found no sign of a poisoning. Moscow has called for Germany to provide its evidence and bristled at the urging from Merkel and other Western leaders to answer questions about what happened to the politician.
Asked if the Kremlin agreed with Volodin's theory, Peskov replied, "We can neither agree nor disagree" with the claim. "The only way to shed light on this incident is to share information, biomaterials and evidence and to work together in analysing the situation," he said.
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