BERLIN — Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition chief who’s recovering in Berlin after being poisoned, posted {a photograph} on Tuesday exhibiting him within the hospital, wanting gaunt however very a lot alive, and telling followers that he was respiration on his personal.
“Good day, it’s Navalny,” he stated in an Instagram post with a picture of himself sitting up in a hospital mattress surrounded by his spouse and others. “I can nonetheless do nearly nothing, however yesterday I may breathe your entire day on my own.”
The message got here hours after a senior German safety official told The New York Times that Mr. Navalny was awake, alert and had spoken to a German prosecutor however was refusing to cooperate with a Russian inquiry into his case. He additionally vowed, based on the official, to return to Russia as quickly as potential to proceed his work.
Katrin Bennhold reported from Berlin, and Michael Schwirtz from London.
