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"Arms and legs suddenly went limp": Ex-Putin adviser in intensive care unit - poisoned in Sardinia?

2022-08-01T13:53:10.514Z


"Arms and legs suddenly went limp": Ex-Putin adviser in intensive care unit - poisoned in Sardinia? Created: 08/01/2022 15:47 By: Andreas Schmid Former Kremlin Special Envoy Anatoly Chubais with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The officer is now in the hospital. © IMAGO/Russian Look (archive photo) Anatoly Chubais' "arms and legs suddenly went limp." Putin's former adviser is in the hospital


"Arms and legs suddenly went limp": Ex-Putin adviser in intensive care unit - poisoned in Sardinia?

Created: 08/01/2022 15:47

By: Andreas Schmid

Former Kremlin Special Envoy Anatoly Chubais with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The officer is now in the hospital.

© IMAGO/Russian Look (archive photo)

Anatoly Chubais' "arms and legs suddenly went limp." Putin's former adviser is in the hospital.

Poisoned?

After the Ukraine war he resigned.

Moscow/Cagliari – fuss about a former Putin confidant.

Anatoly Chubais resigned as a Kremlin official after the start of the Ukraine war.

He is now in a hospital in Italy.

According to a report in the Italian daily

La Repubblica

, Chubais is being treated in a clinic on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, where he is said to have previously been on vacation.

A suspicion of poisoning is being investigated.

Anatoly Chubais: suspected poisoning - arms and legs "lamed"

At the weekend there were first reports that Chubais had been taken to an intensive care unit.

Russian presenter and former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, citing Chubais' family, said he was in "unstable condition".

Specifically: “He got sick.

His arms and legs suddenly became paralyzed.” According to Sobchak, the room in which Chubais last stayed was examined by “specialists in protective chemical suits”.

These descriptions sparked speculation on social networks that the former confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin might have been poisoned.

The

Repubblica

also wrote that a suspected poisoning was being investigated.

A possible cause of Tschubais' malaise could also be a rare nervous disease, it said.

Anatoly Chubais

Chubais was "Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation" - and thus a direct confidant of Putin.

He took over the post in 2020. He resigned at the end of March this year – around a month after Russia invaded Ukraine.

According to media reports, he did not agree with Putin's war.

At the time, the Kremlin only said that Chubais had left “at his own request”.

In the past there have been repeated cases of opponents of the Kremlin being poisoned - including the well-known Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who barely survived an assassination attempt with the nerve agent Novichok in 2020.

Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Jarmysch now commented directly on the sick Chubais: "So that's the Kremlin's reputation: nobody has any major doubts that Chubais was poisoned," she wrote on Twitter.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by the state agency Interfax as follows: "Of course this is sad news, we wish him a speedy recovery."

Ukraine negotiations: grain blockade ended

In the meantime, there was an initial agreement in the negotiations on the Ukraine war: the grain blockade is passé.

For the first time since the beginning of the war, a ship with grain left the port of Odessa.

A cargo ship loaded with corn left for Lebanon on Monday.

An agreement on grain exports had previously been negotiated with the help of Turkey and the United Nations.

"That's pretty positive," said Kremlin spokesman Peskov.

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Source: merkur

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