“He is in a coma in grave condition,” his spokesperson said on Twitter.
MOSCOW — Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, his spokesperson said Thursday morning.
The 44-year-old foe of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin felt unwell on a flight back to Moscow from Tomsk, a city in Siberia, Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter.
She said the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Siberia, and that Navalny was suffering from “toxic poisoning.”
“He is in a coma in grave condition,” she said on Twitter.
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Yarmysh said the politician must have consumed something from tea he drank earlier in the morning.
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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight https://t.co/dFH3N5Sehv
— POLITICO (@politico) August 20, 2020
Navalny spokeswoman: His wife Yuliya has arrived in Omsk, but she's not being let in to see him because he has "not agreed to give permission." (He's in a coma).
They also say that her passport is not sufficient; they need a marriage certificate to prove she's his wife. https://t.co/mApeCNwjes
— Ilya Lozovsky (@ichbinilya) August 20, 2020
To someone who came of age when I did, this is flabbergasting. It was always R's lecturing D's on standing up for democratic values abroad. And now … https://t.co/enaXBWRsXG
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) August 21, 2020
After a day of delays and changing stories, allies of stricken Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny finally gave permission to get him to a specialist poison hospital in Berlin. My report on some very strange happenings in Omsk https://t.co/wGtiqDo4Fn
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) August 21, 2020
BREAKING from Charité hospital treating Alexei Navalny:
– Clinical evidence points to poisoning with a "cholinesterase inhibitor"
– Navalny remains in an induced coma
– Condition serious but his life not currently in acute danger pic.twitter.com/Nnl5M6uBSh— Richard Walker (@rbsw) August 24, 2020
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