DISINFO: UK likely to have assassinated Navalny with Novichok using Ukrainian intelligence agencies
SUMMARY
The UK is likely to have assassinated Navalny with Novichok using Ukrainian intelligence agencies. Ukrainian intelligence has many operators working clandestinely within the Russian Federation. They are all native Russian speakers, with no hint of an English accent, and can travel anywhere. They work closely with their British comrades in arms. Once near the penal colony, it would have been child's play to smuggle in whatever chemical agents they wanted to cause the embolism that is said to have caused Navalny's death.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory. No evidence given.
This disinformation message is similar to the ones about the poisoning and attempted murder of former Russian GRU officer Sergei Skripal.
The death of political prisoner Alexei Navalny is still under investigation but the deceased Russian dissident spent his final days in one of Russia's harshest prisons. Furthermore, he almost died in 2020 after he was poisoned with a nerve agent.
This disinformation story aims to divert any Russian responsibility for the death of Alexei Navalny - a frequent target of pro-Kremlin disinformation. The reasons for his death remain unclear.
Efforts to prevent Navalny's family from accessing his body, coupled with reports of an FSB team visiting the prison and tampering with security cameras, which ultimately malfunctioned on the day of Navalny's death, fuel suspicions of a possible state-sanctioned incident by Russian authorities.
The fact that Navalny's death happend several weeks before the Russian presidential elections is also fuelling speculations that removing him from any political role, even from a remote prison, would help Putin gain total dominance of the Russian political landscape.
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