Lavrov warns sanctions against German, French officials

Last month, the European Union and the United Kingdom have frozen assets and imposed travel stops on six Russian officials, believed to be responsible for “the suicide” of the Kremlin critic Alexei Navlany.

Navalny is ill on a visit from Siberia to Moscow on August 20th and has spent nearly three weeks in a coma.

Two days later, he moved to the Charite Hospital in Berlin, where doctors found traces of the Novico nervous agent in his body.

Their findings have also been independently confirmed by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons.

“Since Germany was a locomotive of European Union sanctions, due to the Navajo case, and since sanctions target key employees of the Russian Federation presidential office, our sanctions will be equal to”, Lavrov said, adding that they will hit the administration employees of Germany and France, writes REL.

Lavrov also suggested that Navalny may have been poisoned with nervous agents either at the Charite clinic in Berlin or aboard the aircraft that he transported to Berlin.

Navalny, who continues to stay in Germany, has blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering the poison attack, while the Kremlin has denied any involvement.