MOSCOW – Colleagues of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that a bottle of water with a trace of the Novichok nerve agent was found in his hotel room after his poisoning.Navalny fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow on Aug.
20 and was flown to Germany, where he was kept in an induced coma for more than two weeks as he was treated with an antidote.
On Tuesday, he posted a picture of himself from his hospital bed in Berlin, hugged by his wife and children. A video posted on Navalny’s Instagram on Thursday showed his team working around his hotel room in Tomsk before he left the city and collapsed on a flight back to Moscow.Navalny's Instagram said they returned to the room an hour after learning that he had become.