Germany “falsified” its statement that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko told Russia’s visiting prime minister Thursday, citing an intercepted conversation.
The German government said Wednesday that Navalny, 44, who remains in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator two weeks after falling ill on a flight, was poisoned with a substance from the deadly Novichok family. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s demand for answers from Russia has raised the possibility of fresh European sanctions against Moscow.
“We intercepted a conversation between Warsaw and Berlin before Merkel’s statement… which clearly states that this is a falsification,” Lukashenko told Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
“Navalny was never poisoned,” Lukashenko said in a televised meeting shared by a Telegram channel with reported close ties to his administration.
Lukashenko claimed that Merkel made a public announcement about Navalny’s poisoning “to discourage [Russian President Vladimir] Putin from sticking his nose in Belarusian affairs.”
Belarus has been gripped by weeks of nationwide rallies against Lukashenko’s landslide victory in what opposition supporters say was a rigged presidential election. The president previously accused Russia of election meddling, then directed his ire at Belarus’ western neighbors after the Aug. 9 vote.
Lukashenko said he’ll forward the purported intercepted call between Germany and Poland to Russia’s FSB security service. Mishustin appeared stone-faced in the video of his meeting with Lukashenko.
While observers were quick to question the claims, the Kremlin said it was not yet in possession of the materials that led Lukashenko to conclude that Germany falsified the Navalny poisoning claims.
Sergei Naryshkin, who heads Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency it was “possible” that Navalny’s poisoning was a “provocation” by Western intelligence agencies.
“If the president of Belarus said it, then he had a reason,” Naryshkin was quoted as saying.
(c) The Moscow Times
Is the hole you are digging yourself into, not deep enough Luka? I believe you have enough on your plate already, without sticking your nose into something that doesn’t concern you. How many Russian goons has Putin promised you, to come up with this crap, 200, 300, a 1000?
My RT advisor told me today said, Luka..hahahaha
Did not expect anything else, the West is falsifying all kinds of information to cover up their evil agenda’s. I hope Navalny gets better soon, but for that he has to leave Germany asap I am afraid?
GFY troll. Retards are on RT, go join them.
Keep looking in the mirror you derailed piece of Zionist scum?
Spoken like a Russian Nazzi.
This is a busy little troll. He’s got his own site. He appears to be the sole contributor.
He also upvotes himself.
Sure sign of a RTard.
And no doubt, no comments allowed I’ll bet.
He allows comments, seems he has one guy commenting on every article, the same guy BTW, and he replies to it. As you can guess, everything is anti West etc.
I think I remember him because he popped up on our Reader Page until I kicked him off of it.
He was poisoned by Putin!
Evil is what evil does Moskali. Who is invading, occupying, kidnapping, torturing, lying, hacking and practicing fascism? Da Comrade, you and your fellow Moskali, not the West.
Save your energy Red, I blocked him already.
Damn, you’re no fun ;)) We caught a nazi and you cut the line, LMAO!
“Germany “falsified” its statement that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned, Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko told Russia’s visiting prime minister Thursday, citing an intercepted conversation.”
No doubt, this is a cheap attempt of Luka to squeeze into Poootin’s anus. He needs Poootin to remain in power … or the hope thereof.
At any rate, he’s taking over a new and lowlier job; Krumlin speaker. Take your hate, Pest-cough…