A particularly insidious assassination attempt was carried out on November 1, 2006, against former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. He was admitted to a London hospital after being poisoned. Doctors fought desperately for weeks to save his life, as they did not know what poison had been used to poison Litvinenko. Litvinenko served in the security services of the USSR and then Russia from 1988 to 1999. Over the years, Litvinenko became a bitter opponent of the Kremlin, which is why he fled to the UK with his wife and their son in 2000, where he sought political asylum. In London, Litvinenko worked as an informant for the British foreign intelligence service MI6 from 2003 and was granted British citizenship in October 2006. He was considered a major critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was supported by oligarch Boris Berezovsky until he was eventually eliminated. On the day of his poisoning, he had met with Duma deputy and former KGB employee Andrei Lugovoi and Russian businessman Dimitri Kovun in a London hotel bar, where Lugovoi had mixed poison into his tea. Litvinenko was certain that he had been poisoned on behalf of the Russian secret service FSB. Since his poisoning, doctors and toxicologists have been feverishly trying to solve the mystery of what Litvinenko had been poisoned with. Then they discovered a high dose of radioactive polonium-210 in his urine. This substance is perfect for use as a murder weapon, as polonium-210 is extremely toxic and its alpha rays damage the body’s cells, leading to cell death. This causes organ failure and the immune system to collapse. Just one millionth of a gram is enough to kill a person. Although the doctors now finally knew that the former KGB agent had been poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium-210, it was too late to help him. Litvinenko died on November 23, 2006, in a London hospital as a result of radiation sickness caused by polonium. Before his death, he had given an interview to The Times newspaper in which he accused the Kremlin of poisoning him.
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