Political leader Alexei Navalny is currently in a coma. He is on a ventilator in a hospital in Siberia after he fell ill during a flight. Spokeswoman suspects that Navalny’s condition is because of poison.
Alexei Navalny who is now 44 years old was flying from Siberia to Moscow. He boards the plan after-work trip to Tomsk. That’s when his plan had to make an emergency landing. Alexei is in critical condition. He is under the intensive care unit for toxicology patients.
The 44-year-old’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh told the Echo of Moscow radio broadcast that Navalny had started perspiring and afterward lost cognizance soon after take-off.
Yarmysh tweet confirmed
” Alexei has toxic poisoning” adding “now in intensive care”.
“Alexei is still unconscious”
Alexei Navalny is very well known for his anti-corruption campaigns. He also suffered physical attacks in the past. Even last year his team took him to a hospital for suspected poisoning. Doctors conformed he had a severe allergic attack. Plus, Navalny endured chemical burns back in 2017.
Whenever affirmed as a poison assault, it would be the most recent in a series of prominent attacks, frequently with poison, against resistance figures and Russian protesters that incorporates the 2018 poisoning of Sergei Skripal and the 2015 shooting demise of opposition legislator Boris Nemtsov.
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