- How can you tell Putin is lying? - He opens his mouth. I’ll prove it in five carousel slides—keep swiping. ⠀ 1. It’s easy. Putin lies so much that he can’t even remember what he was lying about two months ago. ⠀ 2. Yesterday he said: if we had wanted to poison him, we would have done it properly, not sent him off for treatment. That claim is about as convincing as saying, "if we had tampered with Olympic doping samples, no one would have noticed." And, supposedly, it was he personally who gave the order to let me be transported out. He could just as well have refused, since I allegedly had some travel restrictions. ⠀ 3. Let’s look at the news from two months ago. I’m in a coma. Honest doctors are saying I need to be urgently evacuated and properly treated. The "Omsk doctors" are lying, saying I’m not fit for transport. ⠀ 4. My wife is demanding that they release me. Putin’s press secretary, Peskov, blinking innocently, says: what do we have to do with it? Nothing. It’s a matter for the doctors. ⠀ So they kept me there for 48 hours, waiting for the "Novichok" nerve agent to fully break down in my blood so it would never be detected. ⠀ 5. Then, after 48 hours, I suddenly became "fit for transport." And the Kremlin said Putin had absolutely nothing to do with it. ⠀ And now it turns out that no one cared in the slightest what the "Omsk doctors" thought, and that every decision was made personally by "Dr. Putin." ⠀ They were waiting either for me to die or for the "Novichok" to dissolve. They were wrong—laboratories in three countries found the poison in my blood. ⠀ The part about "travel restrictions" is especially ridiculous. A 100% lie. I have an international passport. I won a case on this issue in the European Court of Human Rights. In the fabricated case about "insulting a veteran," they tried to make me sign a pledge not to leave, but the charge does not provide for any restriction of liberty. I refused to sign it and, as you know, traveled freely to Novosibirsk and Tomsk. No one restricted me. ⠀ All of this convinces me once again: Putin was the one who ordered this assassination attempt. He forbade them from transporting me in order to cover up the traces of chemical weapons. It was because of him, not because of the doctors, that I was deemed "unfit for transport." Two months have passed, and there still isn’t even a criminal case—that too is Putin’s personal order. Like any criminal, he is simply covering his tracks. ⠀ P.S. It’s funny that he was once again afraid to say my last name. (photo: @jenskochphoto )