NATO demanded that Russia explain how opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a military-grade chemical nerve agent — and it warned of an unspecified 'international response' to the assassination attempt
was poisoned by a military-grade chemical nerve agent — and it warned of an unspecified "international response" to the assassination attempt.
While Stoltenberg did not point a finger directly at Russian President Vladimir Putin, it was clear that he was joining German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other Western leaders in saying the Kremlin ultimately holds responsibility for the attack on Russian soil, and the use of a chemical derivative of Novichok, a nerve agent developed by the Russian military.
The U.K. government determined that a Novichok agent was the weapon used in the March 2018 attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, survived the attack. A woman who came in contact with the chemical, Dawn Sturgess, died and her boyfriend and a police officer who had responded to the Skripal incident fell ill.
Stoltenberg noted that the Navalny attack had occurred against a Russian citizen on Russian soil, but that there was a pattern of attacks against opposition figures in the country.
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