“The patient’s condition has improved enough to be discharged from acute inpatient care,” said a statement from Berlin’s Charité Hospital on Wednesday, a day after the critic in the Kremlin left the hospital.
“Alexei Navalny is receiving treatment at Charite for 32 days, of which 24 days are in intensive care.” “Based on the patient’s progress and current condition, the treating physicians believe that a full recovery is possible. However, it is still too early to gauge the potential long-term effects of his severe toxicity.”
The Kremlin has vehemently denied any involvement, but multiple questions remain.
Novichuk was also used in the March 2018 attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the English city of Salisbury and many Russian opponents have been poisoned in the past.
“Before they allowed me to go to Germany, they took off all my clothes and I was sent completely naked,” he said in a statement. “Given the fact that Novichok has been found on my body, it is very likely that my clothing is a very important physical evidence.”
Monday’s statement coincided with the expiration of the preliminary investigation into the accident conducted by the Russian authorities, which did not lead to a criminal investigation. Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmisch, said the Russian government had turned a blind eye to the incident.
Last week, Navalny’s aides said they took items from his Tomsk hotel room to Germany, where the lab later found traces of nerve gas on one of the bottles of water he apparently drank from.
Navalny’s colleague who collected the items in Tomsk, chief investigator Georgi Alborov, previously told CNN that the water bottle was not necessarily the ingredient used to poison the Kremlin critic, suggesting that the substance may have been applied to a different object.
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