Thread by @PaulaChertok

Wild. Russia's @Navalny called his assassin & pretended to be an FSB official needing to report to Chief Patrushev why Omsk poisoning operation was a "complete failure." And the assassin confesses!

Call & transcript via @bellingcat bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

@navalny @bellingcat "Jaw-dropping admission rips giant hole in Kremlin denials"—CNN reports some of the extraordinary detail in @Navalny assassin's confession—unknowingly confessing to his victim! Novichok was placed on inside seam of Navalny's underwear. He'd be dead w/o quick-thinking medics.

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1341008348859252739

🙄“Russophobia!” That’s #Russia’s absurd denial of poisoning @Navalny, after 1 of Putin’s mafia state hitmen confessed—to Navalny!—in a stunning 49-min call detailing the FSB poison operation that smeared a chemical weapon on the oppo politician’s underwear in a Siberian hotel🤯

@navalny "I said this story was cooler than a Hollywood movie, and you have no idea how true that is.”

Watch Russian opposition leader Alexey @Navalny's video about his stunning call to an FSB poison squad assassin, whom he got to confess amazing details of his poisoning & coverup.

https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1341084060790231040

🤔#Russia called @Navalny’s call w/ FSB assassin a “fake.” But very real police arrested @SobolLubov & others outside the assassin’s home to keep them from talking to the FSB military chemist who confessed to washing Navalny’s underpants in the cleanup phase of the assassination.

https://twitter.com/navalnylive/status/1341072474507784193