A CCTV video has captured the moment showing who gave Russian opposition politician, fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin Alexei Navalny a cup of tea having drunk which he went into coma.
Before boarding his flight, Navalny got the tea at a Tomsk airport cafe from his aide Ilya Pakhomov, according to the Mash channel on Telegram.
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"The CCTV video from Tomsk Airport shows that Alexei sits down at a table without the drink. Later, Navalny's aide Ilya Pakhomov, an employee of FBK [the Anti-Corruption Foundation set up by Navalny], brings him the cup. Thus, no one at the counter knew for whom the drink was being prepared," the channel says.
Yet, those who comment on the video on YouTube point to the bad quality of the footage, which makes it hard to draw any conclusion.
Poisoning of Navalny: Known facts
- On the morning of August 20, Navalny was hospitalized with signs of poisoning.
- Navalny started feeling ill when returning to Moscow from Tomsk in Siberia by plane.
- He was carried off the plane on a stretcher after it made an emergency landing at Omsk.
- A spokesperson for Navalny assumes that he was poisoned with something mixed into his tea.
- At the airport, one of the passengers took a picture of the politician holding the cup.
- Doctors have not yet announced Navalny's official diagnosis. It is known that he is in a coma, but his condition is stable.
- The Kremlin said it was monitoring media reports on Navalny's condition and wished him a speedy recovery.
