- A video appears to show a team of medics rushing on a plane to help Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a suspected poisoning.
- Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmish tweeted that the Kremlin critic fell ill on a flight on Thursday. "We assume that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his tea," she said.
- A video posted to Instagram Stories by a fellow passenger under the name DJ Pavlin shows staff rushing up and down the aisle, while a loud, pained groan is heard throughout the cabin.
- "At the start of the flight he went to the toilet and he didn't come back. He became very ill and they could barely resuscitate him as he screamed in pain," DJ Pavlin wrote.
- Navalny is currently in a coma and in grave condition at a hospital in Omsk, Yarmish said.
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A video appears to show the moment emergency workers on a plane rushed to help prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after a suspected poisoning attempt.
On Thursday morning, Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmish tweeted that he had fallen ill during a flight from Tomsk, Siberia, to Moscow.
Yarmish said the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, a city between Tomsk and Moscow, and Navalny was taken to the hospital.
"We assume that Alexei was poisoned with something mixed into his tea. That was the only thing he drank this morning," Yarmish said.
A video shared widely on social media — first posted to Instagram Stories by a passenger onboard the same flight named DJ Pavlin — appears to show medics attending to Navalny.
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