⁍ Navalny fell violently ill on a flight in Russia last month and was airlifted to Berlin for treatment.

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⁍ Germany, France and Sweden have established he was poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent, a poison developed by the Soviet military.

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⁍ Russia has carried out pre-investigation checks, but said it needs to see more medical analysis before it can open a formal criminal investigation.

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– When Alexei Navalny fell violently ill on a flight in Russia last month and was airlifted to Berlin for treatment, aides thought he had been poisoned at the airport. Now, they think he was poisoned in his hotel room in Tomsk, not at the airport. In an Instagram video posted Thursday, Navalny’s team says a German lab found traces of the nerve agent Novichok “precisely on the bottle of water from the Tomsk hotel room” two weeks after Navalny fell ill. “And then more laboratories that took analyses from Alexei confirmed that that was what poisoned Navalny,” the post says. “Now we understand: it was done before he left his hotel room to go to the airport.” Previously, Navalny’s aides had said they suspected he had been poisoned with a cup of tea he drank at Tomsk airport. Vladimir Milov, a former deputy energy minister and an ally of Navalny, says his team had outmanoeuvred the FSB security service with their quick thinking: “They took the evidence from under their noses and shipped it out of the country.’ Navalny’s ally Georgy Alburov tells Reuters “the bottles flew with Alexei” when he was airlifted to Germany on Aug. 22. The European Parliament passed a resolution condemning the attempted assassination of Navalny and calling for an international investigation into the case and into alleged Russian breaches of its international commitments on chemical weapons.