Lavrov: Russia still hasn't received Navalny's test results from Germany

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia still hasn't received Alexei Navalny's test results after his treatment in Germany, RIA Novosti reports.

"There is no answer to the question of where the medical test results of the recently deceased Alexei Navalny, who was treated in Germany in the fall of 2020, are," Lavrov said in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson.

The minister added that another reason Moscow asked the Germans to show the test results was Navalny's poor health.

"We didn't find what they found. I don't know what they did to him... But they still haven't told us how they treated him, what they discovered, and what methods they used," the minister noted.

Alexei Navalny was hospitalized in Omsk on August 20, 2020, after he became ill on a plane en route from Tomsk. Based on the examination results, Omsk doctors named the main diagnosis as a metabolic disorder that caused a sharp change in blood sugar. What caused it is unclear, but according to Omsk doctors, no poisons were found in Navalny's blood and urine.

He was later transported by plane to Germany. After that, the German government stated, citing military doctors, that Navalny was allegedly poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group of toxic warfare agents. Later, the German Cabinet reported that the conclusions of German experts were confirmed by laboratories in Sweden and France, and that the OPCW is simultaneously conducting its own research at the request of Berlin. In this regard, the Kremlin stated that Berlin had not informed Moscow of its findings, and the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that Russia is waiting for a response from Germany to an official request on this situation: in a month, Russia sent Germany three requests for legal assistance on the situation with Navalny, and no responses have been received. On the day of Navalny's hospitalization, the prosecutor's office and police began their investigations.

A year after the incident with Navalny, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that it was a planned provocation aimed at discrediting Russia, the case was promoted by the West to contain the country and launch new attacks on it. The ministry noted that Berlin never provided any verifiable evidence of its accusations against the Russian Federation, and the OPCW ignored Moscow's request for assistance, preventing the initiation of the case.