Navalni's team assures that there are traces of poison in a bottle of water found in the hotel in Siberia

A bottle of mineral water with traces of poison in a hotel in Siberia.

The environment of the Russian opponent Alexéi Navalni, admitted to a Berlin hospital, assures that German laboratories have detected toxic substances in an empty water bottle, found in the hotel where Navalni stayed before collapsing.

This would mean that it was not the tea he drank at Tomsk airport that poisoned him, as was believed until now.

The finding leads them to conclude, as tweeted by their spokesperson, Kira Yarmish, that "Navalni was poisoned with Novichok at the hotel, before traveling to the airport."

In a video posted on the opponent's Instagram account, his collaborators can be seen collecting plastic bottles with a blue cap from the hotel room, as well as other possible evidence.

"We decided to take everything that could be in any way useful and give it to the doctors in Germany," says the text accompanying the video on the social network.

They explain that they collected them when they heard the news that Navalni had collapsed because “it was evident that Russia was not going to investigate what happened.

This is what happened: almost a month later, Russia has not recognized the poisoning of Alexei. "Moscow denies any involvement in an alleged poisoning and asks Berlin for proof of its accusations.

Navalni has awakened from the induced coma in which he was since last August 20, when he was initially admitted to a Russian hospital and evacuated two days later to Germany.

His health improves, according to the Charité hospital where he is admitted.

This week, the arch enemy of the Kremlin published the first image after what happened on a social network, in which he is seen in the center's bed with his family.

The politician, known for his denunciations against corruption, collapsed during a flight from Siberia to Moscow, which was forced to make an emergency landing at the end of August in Omsk.

Navalni was evacuated to Germany after intense diplomatic efforts by activists around him.

Laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden have confirmed that Navalni was intoxicated with a nerve agent from the Novichok family, developed by the Soviet military in the 1980s.

Berlin has asked Moscow for explanations for the

, which has caused strong diplomatic tensions between the countries of the European Union and Russia.

Meanwhile, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW for its acronym in English, based in The Hague) has issued a statement in which it indicates that it is providing technical assistance to Germany in relation to the alleged use of a chemical weapon against Navalni.

“A team of experts from the technical secretary has independently collected samples from Mr. Navalni for analysis by the OPCW in designated laboratories.

The results will be shared with the German authorities, ”the organization said in a statement.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel assured in an unusually harsh tone at the beginning of September, after the result of the analyzes in Germany was known, that there was "unequivocal evidence" of poisoning with a substance from the Novichok group.

The chancellor also spoke of an "attempted assassination of an opposition leader" with the aim of "silencing him."

The substance detected in German military laboratories and also corroborated by independent analyzes in France and Sweden belongs to the same family as the nerve agent used against the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in 2018 in the United Kingdom.

Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the assassination attempt in Salisbury.