Lukashenko claims Merkel’s remarks on Navalny ‘poisoning’ were fabricated, cites Berlin-Warsaw phone call ‘intercepted’ by Minsk

the alleged poisoning

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement on the alleged poisoning of Alexey Navalny was a “falsification,” Belarus’ embattled president said on Thursday, citing an unverified supposed intercept of German-Polish communications.

Berlin has denied the claims. “Mr. Lukashenko’s statement is untrue, naturally,” a representative of the German goverment insisted to news agency TASS, noting that “there is nothing to add” to the statements made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer regarding Navalny’s alleged poisoning.

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