A spokesman for the Moscow government called the German statement that the opposition man had been hit by "reckless" poisoning • Pompeo: "If it turns out that Nabalani has been poisoned, we will support a commission of inquiry"

• Alexei Navalny // Photo: Reuters

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov today (Tuesday) responded to allegations that the country's opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, had been poisoned in an assassination attempt by Putin's government, saying it was "empty talk."

Peskov told Russian media that the allegations were: "Background noise. We can not take such allegations seriously. There is no way they can be true." Peskov called the announcement in Germany a hospital in which Nablani was hospitalized unconscious that he had been poisoned as a "reckless decision." 

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented on the issue and said that if it was proven that Nabalani had been poisoned, his country would join the European demand to establish an international commission of inquiry into the circumstances of Nabalani's injury. 

Legislators in Russia have announced, in response to the European demand to set up a commission of inquiry, that they will work to set up a local commission of inquiry to examine whether foreign elements were involved in the affair. Legislators argued that this was an international conspiracy hatched together with the opposition in Russia with the aim of tarnishing the name of the government. 

"There is evidence that Alexei Nablani was poisoned"

The hospital treating Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and rival of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Berlin announced that evidence had been found that the man had been poisoned. It was also reported that his life was saved and now there is no longer any immediate medical danger to his life, according to the German newspaper "Bild" this morning (Monday).

According to the clinic in Berlin, Navalny was hit by toxins from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. The exact type of toxin has not yet been determined and a further test has been ordered for this purpose. Navalny's colleague, Leonid Volkov, mentioned that the group's most famous toxin was "Novichuk" - the poison used to attack former Russian officer Sergei Skripel in Britain.

The German government has today decided to place security around the opposition man. Stephen Seabert, a spokeswoman for Chancellor Angela Merkel, told state media: "Because it can be assumed with high probability that we are dealing with an affair of poisoning, protecting the man's life is necessary."

Jacka Bizilij, the chairman of the foundation that financed the flight of the opposition man from Russia to Germany, confirmed to the German newspaper that all the signs indicate that Navalny was indeed poisoned and defined the poison used as "powerful". Officials in Germany had earlier claimed that it was too early to say whether Navalny had been poisoned.