Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he is recovering his verbal and physical abilities at the German hospital where he is being treated for suspected nerve agent poisoning but that he at first felt despair over his condition.
Navalny, the most visible opponent of
Russian President
Vladimir Putin, fell ill on a domestic flight to
Moscow on Aug. 20 and was transferred to
Germany for treatment two days later.
A German
MILITARY lab later determined that the Russian politician was poisoned with Novichok, the same class of Soviet-era agent that
Britain said was used on a former Russian spy and his daughter in
England, in 2018.