Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says opposition leader Alexei Navalny exhibited clear 'traits of megalomania'.
of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who the Kremlin said was suffering from"delusions of persecution".
In a video of the conversation published by Navalny, the alleged FSB agent says agents placed poison in Navalny's underwear this summer. The Kremlin on Tuesday described Navalny as a"sick" man who was suffering from"delusions of persecution". "After this the system cannot exist in its current form," she wrote in the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
The FSB described the phone call as"fake" and said it would not have been possible without"the support of foreign intelligence services. "Intelligence 101: always insist on calling back, never simply take a call from someone you do not recognise," said Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference.The counter sanctions were announced after Moscow summoned senior diplomats from Germany, France and Sweden, the three countries where labs have said Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-designed nerve agent.