Aides To Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Say The Nerve Agent Novichok Has Been Found On Hotel Water Bottle

Daily Mail/Reuters: Russia 'will try again' to kill Navalny: NATO officials say outrage at Novichok plot will not stop Putin as opposition leader's friends say he was poisoned with a water bottle

* Navalny is recovering in a Berlin hospital after Novichok poisoning on August 20
* West has demanded answers and MEPs today called for sanctions on Russia
* But NATO sources warned that the row would not stop Moscow trying again
* Russia warned that any sanctions would be seen as 'manifestly anti-Russian'
* Navalny's allies say they have found traces of Novichok in hotel water bottles

Russia will try again to kill Alexei Navalny despite Western outrage at the Novichok poison plot against the Kremlin critic, NATO intelligence officials believe.

NATO sources told Business Insider that there was 'no other explanation' except that Moscow ordered the hit against Navalny, who is recovering in a Berlin hospital after allegedly being poisoned with a water bottle in Siberia last month.

While the West has demanded answers and the European Parliament today urged tough sanctions against Russia, the NATO officials warned that the diplomatic row would not prevent the Kremlin's operatives from trying again.

Asked whether the pressure on Moscow would keep Navalny alive if he returned to Russia, one said: 'Short-term maybe, but long term absolutely not.'

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