Putin condemns 'unsubstantiated' Navalny claims in call with Macron | Inquirer News

Putin condemns ‘unsubstantiated’ Navalny claims in call with Macron

/ 09:42 PM September 14, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) French President Emmanuel Macron. AP AND AFP FILE PHOTOS

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday condemned “unsubstantiated” accusations over opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s poisoning with a nerve agent during a call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

Putin stressed it was inappropriate to make “unsubstantiated accusations based on nothing against the Russian side,” according to a Kremlin readout of the call after French and Swedish laboratories earlier confirmed German findings that Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.

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TAGS: France, Germany, nerve agent, Novichok, opposition, poisoning, Politics, Russia

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