The German hospital treating poisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny has asked for British help, it emerged last night.
Its doctors called upon the Government’s world-leading Defence Science and Technology Laboratory as they try to treat the Russian opposition leader, who is reportedly in a coma.
The Wiltshire laboratory led the investigation into the Salisbury attack on former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in 2018.
Charite hospital in Berlin has made contact with the lab and its Munich equivalent, said German newspaper Der Spiegel and Bellingcat, the investigative website which uncovered the Salisbury poisoners as Russian agents.
Mr Navalny, 44, is one of the Kremlin’s biggest critics and he made his name by exposing official corruption.