Novichok found on water bottle suggests Russia's Navalny poisoned before he went to airport
Source: CNN
(CNN)Traces of poison were found on a bottle of water from the hotel room in Siberia where Alexey Navalny stayed before falling ill, the Russian opposition politician's team said Thursday.
Despite this, a member of Navalny's team told CNN that the water bottle was not necessarily the item used to poison the Kremlin critic, suggesting the substance could have been placed on a different object.
"As we understand, the bottle was not the source of this poisonous substance but more likely as he drank from it ... his mouth ... left traces of [the poison] on the bottle," Georgy Alburov, who works at Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, said.
"We are guided by what the experts have said, which is that there was a small amount [of the substance], most likely just a trace of it [on the bottle]," he added.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/europe/navalny-novichok-poisoned-water-intl/index.html
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