Navalny dupes Russian agent into divulging aspects of poisoned underwear

Dec. 21 (UPI) — Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny on Monday stated he had duped a member of Russia’s FSB spy company into revealing that Navalny was poisoned with a toxin placed in his underwear.

“A 7 days ago .. I sat down at the cell phone and begun calling my killers. I spoke with one particular of them for 45 minutes,” Navalny tweeted Monday. “Now we know a lot.”

He also released a movie Monday.

“I said just before: This full poisoning issue is cooler than a Hollywood film,” Navalny stated in the video.

Navalny mentioned he impersonated an aide doing work for a major FSB common and spoke to operative Konstantin Kudryavtsev, badgering Kudryavtsev to disclose particulars of the poisoning. Kurdrayvtsev claimed his associates from the FSB dripped the toxin Novichok to the “inner seams” of Navalny’s blue boxer shorts, although Navalny was staying at the Xander lodge in the Siberian town of Tomsk.

Pretending to be “Maxim Ustinov,” Navalny continued to bully the agent, demanding to know why the poisoning endeavor unsuccessful.

Navalny, 44, a intense critic of Russian president Valdimir Putin, turned violently ill on an plane Aug. 20, which designed an unexpected emergency landing in the city of Omsk.

Kudryavtsev stated if the plane had flown straight to Moscow, exposing Navalny to the toxin for an additional three hours, the poison could have been lethal.

“Nicely indeed, if [Navalny] was in the air for lengthier and they did not land in these types of an abrupt way, perhaps, items would have not long gone the way they did,” Kudryavtsev informed him. “Indicating, if the medics did not help him, if there was no ambulance at the airport and so on.”

Kudryavtsev stated FSB brokers had disconnected CCTV cameras at the hotel and then deployed the poison to Navalny’s underpants.

“We used a solution so that, you know, no traces could be found,” Kurdrayvtsev said.

Past theories ended up that Navalny experienced been poisoned by drinking drugged tea or a cocktail.

The investigative news company Bellingcat declared previous 7 days that it experienced uncovered 8 FSB customers involved with Navalny’s poisoning.

Russian health professionals to begin with stated they could not decide what had brought on Navalny’s health issues, and he was flown to Berlin in an induced coma. Medical professionals there identified he experienced been poisoned with a nerve agent.

Novichok is a class of chemical toxin created by the previous Soviet Union that was observed to have poisoned previous double agent Sergei Skripal and his adult daughter in Salisbury, Britain, in 2018. The two recovered and Britain billed two Russians in the circumstance.

In October, the European Union sanctioned many users of the Russian govt for the Navalny poisoning.

On Thursday at a annually information meeting, Putin brushed off allegations that he had ordered the poisoning of Navalny, expressing, “If anyone needed to poison him, they possibly would have finished the occupation.”