BREAKING: The German government says tests show the nerve agent Novichok in samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. 9News
opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the victim of an "attempted murder by poisoning" and the aim was to silence him.
Testing by a German military lab determined that Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. After that finding was announced overnight, Merkel said there are "very serious questions that only the Russian government can answer and must answer". Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator who is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's fiercest critics, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Siberia on August 20 and was taken to a hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk after the plane made an emergency landing.
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