Chemical watchdog confirms Navalny poisoned with Soviet-era nerve agent

A global chemical watchdog group has confirmed Germany and other countries’ findings that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a Soviet-era nerve agent.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) carried out its own analysis of samples taken from Mr Navalny, and they “agree with the results already from special laboratories in Germany, Sweden and France”.

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