Russian Hit Team Feared in Suspected Poisoning of U.S. Citizens

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Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst fell ill in April of 2021 and came down with symptoms that could be consistent with poisoning, but testing was inconclusive, according to a statement from the Atlantic Council, where he works now.

The head of a U.S.-based nonprofit that fights against Russian repression, the Free Russia Foundation, says she was possibly poisoned by “some nerve agent” while on a recent trip to Europe, in a possible sign that“There is a suspicion that during my recent trip to Europe I was poisoned, possibly by some nerve agent, investigated by one… Western intelligence agency, I still have neuropathy symptoms, but overall I feel much better,” Natalia Arno, who has lived in the U.S.

Herbst fell ill in April 2021 and came down with symptoms that could be consistent with poisoning, but testing was inconclusive, according to a statement from the Atlantic Council, where Herbst works now. Then she flew to the United States to contact the authorities and to seek medical attention while suffering from what she described as “vivid numbness.” Emergency room tests showed no traces of anything—not even alcohol—she said, which seemed bizarre given that she had just come from what she described as “one of the beer capitals of the world.”

Four of his acquaintances told the outlet that his hotel room in Montenegro was broken into just two months after the war in Ukraine began. Grozev did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast. In 2020, the FSB likely used Novichok to poison Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, according to the. Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB and FSB officer, was killed in 2006 after drinking a radioactive cup of tea in London. Viktor Yushchenko, an anti-Russian Ukrainian presidential candidate, was poisoned with dioxin chemicals in 2004.

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