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Russian riot police lead a charge on demonstrators protesting the arrest of Alexei Navalny – hero of the democracy movement – following his return from Germany, after his first poisoning with the banned chemical Novichok in 2021. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP) (Photo by OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Russia’s “theatrical assassinations” of Vladimir Putin’s critics, even those who made it to seeming sanctuary in the United Kingdom, via exotic state-concocted poisons could presage the mass deployment of chemical weapons by Putin’s armies in a future war with NATO, says an eminent scholar at King’s College London. Elena Grossfeld, a world-leading expert on Russia’s shadow war on the West, including the killing of democrats and defectors stretching from Siberian prison camps to the British capital by Moscow’s intelligence operatives, says these ongoing attacks could one day morph into chemical assaults on NATO troops. A scholar at the prestigious King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, Grossfeld told me in an interview that across the blogs of fervent Kremlin nationalists and “Russian propagandists, they are already in a war with NATO.” The recent joint finding by five European governments, of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands, that Russian democratic torchbearer Alexei Navalny was assassinated via a poison banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention underscores Moscow’s contempt for international treaties constraining its weapons of war or its macabre statecraft of extrajudicial killings. The assassination of Putin’s foes, whether in Britain or inside Russia, via internationally prohibited chemical weaponry, “is a form of statecraft, conducted by intelligence organizations on behalf of the state,” Grossfeld says. Russia’s use of banned chemical weapons along Ukraine battlefronts, and dispatch of poison-armed hit squads transnationally, all continue the Kremlin’s assaults on the UN-backed world order based on rule of…

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