The plane from Germany is ready to take off for Alexey Navalny in the next night. This is reported by TASS with reference to human rights defenders.
“The plane with specialists for patients who are in a coma leaves tonight. If Navalny is transportable early in the morning, the plane will immediately fly to Berlin, ” German media write.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel macron said that his country is ready to grant Navalny asylum if necessary. The French leader noted that he discussed the incident with the Russian politician with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “We are very concerned about the situation. We are ready to provide any support to him [Navalny] and his family, ” macron said. He stressed that it is a question of both offering medical services and asylum.
The day before it became known that several doctors will go from Moscow to Omsk for an extended consultation. At the invitation of regional specialists, anesthesiologists-resuscitators and neurophysiologists of the Pirogov national medical center and the Burdenko neurosurgery center will fly to Omsk. It is planned that Moscow doctors will arrive on Friday, August 21.
Navalny became ill on the morning of August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. The crew made an emergency landing in Omsk, where the victim was taken by ambulance to the Department of toxicomaniac. A preliminary diagnosis of “poisoning by unidentified psychodisleptics” (hallucinogen). His press Secretary Kira Yarmysh claimed that on the day of departure, the opposition leader did not eat anything and only drank tea in a coffee shop at the Tomsk airport. The Kremlin assured that Navalny will be able to go abroad for treatment if the need arises.