The Kremlin said on Tuesday it saw no need for now to investigate the circumstances leading up to opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s grave illness and that a German clinic’s initial diagnosis of poisoning was not yet conclusive, writes Reuters.

According to the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the German clinic had not conclusively identified the substance behind Navalny’s illness and that it was unclear why German doctors were “rushing” to use the word poisoning.

“There must be a reason for an investigation. For the moment, all you and I see is that the patient is in a coma. If poisoning was definitively established as the cause, then an investigation would be launched. If the substance is identified and it is determined it was a poisoning, then, of course, this will be a reason for an investigation”, - said Peskov.