thank you. thank you very much. back in tomsk, there was a surge in communications among the fsb unit and their bosses. if it was expected that navalny would die on the flight, they were now scrambling to deal with a very different situation. we enter a rundown apartment building on the outskirts of moscow where operative oleg tayakin lives. my name is clarissa ward. i work for cnn. can i ask you a couple of questions? was it your team that poisoned navalny? so you ve said that you want to go back to russia. you re aware of the risks of going back. definitely. why do you want to go back? i don t want this group of killers exist in russia. i don t want putin being
tayakin lives. my name is clarissa ward. i work for cnn. can i ask you a couple of questions? [ speaking foreign language ] was it your team so you ve said you want to go back to russia. you re aware of the risks of going back. definitely. why do you want to go back? i don t want these group of killer exist in russia. i don t want putin being president. i don t want him being czar of russia. i want to go back and try to change it. that s a fantastic piece. yeah. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] .
A from the series identified three victims – a journalist, a minority rights activist and an anti-corruption activist – who had died under suspicious circumstances between 2014 and 2019. We traced members of the FSB poison squad to near these individuals in the period preceding their deaths in all three cases. In this report we also identified the role of the FSB’s Directorate for Protection of the Constitutional Order in preparing and conducting poisoning operations.
In this new report, prepared jointly with The Insider (Russia) and Der Spiegel (Germany), we investigate the possible role of the two FSB units in two near-fatal poisonings of Russian politician and opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza.
The US State Department blamed the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia for the attempt to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny with the help of Novichok-class nerve agent. The United States believes that officers from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) used a Novichok nerve agent to poison Mr. Navalny. There is no plausible explanation for Mr. Navalny s poisoning other than Russian government involvement and responsibility, a State Department spokesperson said. Of course, President Putin and the Russian government would have us believe otherwise.
Russia obviously highly likely behind Navalny poisoning Russia has suggested numerous, often contradictory, conspiracy theories. Let s be clear these types of conspiracy theories are nothing more than a means to deflect attention from the serious questions before the Russian government, which it has yet to answer, the spokesperson said.
As charges and counter-charges fly, relations between Russia and the West continue to deteriorate.
New details and fresh questions continue to emerge in the scandal over the poisoning of a high-profile Kremlin opponent.
Last week, CNN and investigative journalism group Bellingcat jointly published a report claiming that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had been tailing Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny since 2017. Through phone records, flight manifests, and leaked government databases, the report pieced together a timeline of how an “elite FSB unit” stalked Navalny throughout August and tried to poison him with a lethal substance. One of the report’s authors, CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, confronted a senior member of this FSB team Oleg Tayakin at his Moscow apartment. “Was it your team that poisoned Navalny?,” queried Ward as Tayakin slammed the door shut.