Russia’s peninsular service said on Monday that it was transferring ailing assemblyman Alexey Navalnyi, who is at 20Th The day of a hunger strike, in a prison hospital – amid grave apprehensions for his health.
The decision comes a day after the US Kremlin threatened that, according to Agres France-Presse, President Vladimir Putin’s major domestic rival ends up behind bars.
Navalny’s personal doctors warned during the weekend that he could die “any minute”.
Russian prison officials, who blocked the 44-year-old’s own medical team from visiting him, said his doctors had decided to move him to a medical facility on the premises of another penal colony in Vladimir, Moscow. Is a city 110 miles to the east. .
But he insisted that the Kremlin critic’s position was “satisfactory”, noting that he was taking vitamin supplements as part of his medical treatment.
Doctor of Navalny, Drs. Yaroslav Ashikhamin said on Saturday that test results obtained from Navalny’s family showed him with high levels of potassium, which could lead to increased cardiac arrest, and elevated creatinine levels indicating impaired renal function.
“Our patient can die at any time,” he wrote on Facebook.
Navalani went on hunger strike in protest against her refusal to let her doctors go when she started feeling severe back pain and aching legs.
Russia’s state peninsular service, FSIN, stated that Navalny was receiving all the medical aid he needed.
His colleagues have called for a nationwide rally on Wednesday, the same day that Putin will deliver his annual state at the nation’s address.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of the European Union are assessing the faction’s strategy towards Russia, amidst the weakened health of Navalny and the military buildup on Ukraine’s borders.
The European Union’s head of foreign policy Josep Borel had already killed the Kremlin for the arrest and treatment of Navalny on Sunday, insisting that he should trust doctors.
“All along, relations with Russia are not improving, but on the contrary, tensions are increasing in various fronts,” Burrell said in a statement.
Navalny was arrested in January on his return from Germany, where he spent five months blaming the Kremlin for recovering from a nerve agent – a charge denied by Russian authorities.
His arrest sparked widespread protests across Russia.
A court has ordered Navalny to serve 2 1/2 years on a 2014 conviction of embezzlement.
Last month, the politician was transferred to a notorious penal colony east of Moscow.
With post wires
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