new slow-acting Novichok in field trials

-Bortnikov, FSB director, with Putin “Navalny was poisoned with a novel development of the chemical weapon Novichok — a variant that the world had not known until this attack but which is said to be more vicious and deadly than all known offshoots of the Novichok family,” Die Zeit reported. Only the Russian intelligence services could have carried out “an operation with such a lethal and complex poison,” Die Zeit reported, citing German intelligence.  German military scientists in Munich found residues of the new type of Novichok on Navalny’s hands and the neck of the water bottle he had been carrying when he fell ill, it added. At least two scientists involved in Novichok’s development have hypothesized that Navalny may have been poisoned with a different type of Novichok than that used in 2018 on former spy Sergei Skripal in Britain. Germany suspects that an FSB agent or another Russian intelligence officer “dripped the poison into the tea or applied it onto the cup’s surface,” according to Die Zeit.   The Insider, which reported on Navalny’s recovery with Germany’s Spiegel weekly and the investigative website Bellingcat, said Navalny is able to recall the events leading up to his poisoning and up to the time when he lost consciousness. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/09/10/navalny-recovering-from-deadlier-slower-acting-novichok-variant-reports-a71400 ……………