President Trump refuses to condemn Russia over poisoning of Putin critic
President Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia over the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, saying he has not seen proof.
Mr Navalny - an anti-corruption campaigner who has long been the most prominent face of opposition to President Vladimir Putin in Russia - is in a coma in a Berlin hospital having been airlifted there from Siberia, where he fell ill. What is Nato's position?Tests at a military laboratory in Germany show"beyond doubt" the presence of a Novichok nerve agent, the German government and Nato say.
But experts in Western states and Nato had, it said, for years worked on compounds used to make Novichok nerve agents. However, Western diplomats and intelligence officials allege that the Salisbury attack in 2018 exposed systematic attempts by Russia to cheat on the convention as well as deceive the international community.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Germany had not yet shared any findings with Moscow prosecutors and said Russia had"nothing to hide".
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