By Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is unconscious and in intensive care in hospital after apparently being poisoned, his spokeswoman said Thursday.
Kira Yarmysh said Navalny was flying from Siberia to Moscow and his plane made an emergency landing after he fell ill.
Yarmysh told Echo of Moscow popular radio station: “I’m sure it was intentional poisoning.”
“Alexei has toxic poisoning,” she wrote on Twitter. “Alexei is now in intensive care.”
Navalny is in the intensive care unit for toxicology patients in Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1, the TASS state news agency confirmed.
“He is in a serious condition,” the hospital’s chief doctor Alexander Murakhovsky told TASS.
“Alexei is still unconscious. They have connected him up to a ventilator. They have called police to the hospital on our request,” Yarmysh tweeted.
She wrote: “We think that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed in his tea. That was the only thing he drank in the morning.”
He was taken to hospital where doctors said he had suffered an allergic reaction but Navalny asked for an investigation into poisoning.
“He was poisoned in the police detention centre. I’m sure that now the same thing happened. It’s different symptoms, evidently a different drug,” Yarmysh told Echo of Moscow.
