Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny hospitalized after alleged poisoning

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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny hospitalized after alleged poisoning

by Mike Brest, Breaking News Reporter
August 20, 2020 07:59 AM

Kremlin critic and opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been hospitalized after he was allegedly poisoned.

Navalny, 44, is unconscious and was placed on a ventilator in the intensive care unit shortly after he started feeling sick during a flight from Tomsk, a city in Siberia, to Moscow early Thursday, according to NBC News. He is in stable but grave condition, according to Anatoly Kalinichenko, a representative from the hospital.

“The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk. Alexei has a toxic poisoning,” Kira Yarmysh, a spokesperson for Navalny, tweeted. She claimed he was intentionally poisoned via a cup of tea that he got in the airport but did not speculate as to who was behind the incident.

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