nerve agent
noun
: a toxic, usually odorless organophosphate (such as sarin, tabun, or VX) that is used as a chemical weapon in gaseous or liquid form, disrupts the transmission of nerve impulses, and may cause breathing difficulties, coughing, vomiting, muscle weakness or paralysis, convulsions, coma, and death : nerve gas
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The regime had tried to kill him before, once poisoning him with a weapons-grade nerve agent that left Navalny comatose for weeks.
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Simon Shuster / Vilnius, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
The most significant attack was the nerve agent poisoning.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
Navalny’s wife has blamed Putin for her husband’s death, alleging that he was poisoned on Putin’s orders with the nerve agent Novichok and that his body was held until traces of the poison had disappeared.
—NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024
Navalny had previously been poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, which a CNN-Bellingcat investigation found he had been tailed by a unit of the Russian Security Service (FSB) that specialized in toxins and nerve agents.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
At the same time, Russia’s coercive apparatus went after Mr. Navalny with an increasing ferocity, poisoning him with a nerve agent in 2020, imprisoning him in inhumane conditions and ultimately sending him to a remote former gulag facility above the Arctic Circle.
—Oleg Matsnev, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
Yulia was with him in 2020 after he was evacuated to Germany for treatment for exposure to a nerve agent.
—Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
Russian authorities handling the post-mortem investigation of Mr. Navalny’s body are part of the same security apparatus that, according to the U.S. government, used the nerve agent Novichok to poison Mr. Navalny in 2020.
—Paul Sonne, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
In 2020, anti-corruption crusader and lawyer Navalny, 47, was poisoned with a deadly nerve agent Novichok.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
Simon Shuster / Vilnius, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
The most significant attack was the nerve agent poisoning.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
Navalny’s wife has blamed Putin for her husband’s death, alleging that he was poisoned on Putin’s orders with the nerve agent Novichok and that his body was held until traces of the poison had disappeared.
—NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024
Navalny had previously been poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, which a CNN-Bellingcat investigation found he had been tailed by a unit of the Russian Security Service (FSB) that specialized in toxins and nerve agents.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
At the same time, Russia’s coercive apparatus went after Mr. Navalny with an increasing ferocity, poisoning him with a nerve agent in 2020, imprisoning him in inhumane conditions and ultimately sending him to a remote former gulag facility above the Arctic Circle.
—Oleg Matsnev, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
Yulia was with him in 2020 after he was evacuated to Germany for treatment for exposure to a nerve agent.
—Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
Russian authorities handling the post-mortem investigation of Mr. Navalny’s body are part of the same security apparatus that, according to the U.S. government, used the nerve agent Novichok to poison Mr. Navalny in 2020.
—Paul Sonne, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
In 2020, anti-corruption crusader and lawyer Navalny, 47, was poisoned with a deadly nerve agent Novichok.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Nerve agent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20agent. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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