Alexander Litvinenko died

Former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko died on Thursday evening. According to Ar, citing a statement by the University College Hospital, the doctors failed to establish the exact cause of his death.

The 43-year-old patient has acute heart failure. "The cause of death turns out to be yet qualified as an inexplicable death," the London police said.

Litvinenko's hair fell out, internal organs were affected, his throat was swollen. The immune and nervous systems were seriously injured. Earlier it was reported that the cause of poisoning could be heavy metal tallium or radioactive substance. Now doctors excluded both versions.

“The hospital’s staff did everything possible to save him,” said the official representative of the hospital Jim Down. “We used all available methods to determine the cause of his condition. Now the police will investigate his death.”

The condition of the patent worsened significantly on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. One of the friends of Litvinenko said that he had a cardiac arrest and he was connected to artificial life support systems. Doctors refused to comment on this information.

Litvinenko himself was sure that he was poisoned on November 1. On this day, he met with the Italian security expert Mario Skramell, and then with the former guard Boris Berezovsky Andrei Lugov. This meeting was attended by a Russian named Vladimir. On Thursday, the British Times wrote that Vladimir became the main suspect. His present at a meeting with Lugov was a surprise to the ex-officer of the FSB. He was silent almost all the time, but urgently offered Litvinenko to drink tea.

After a meeting with Litvinenko, Lugovoi and Vladimir, allegedly disappeared from the UK.

Russian foreign intelligence service rejected any involvement in the poisoning of a former FSB officer, but announced the readiness to cooperate with the British intelligence services in search of the poisoners of Alexander Litvinenko.

Meanwhile, a few hours before his death, Litvinenko gave an interview with the British newspaper Times. Overcoming the pain, he said that perhaps he would not be a winner in the fight against poisons that destroy his organs, but the campaign for the search for truth should be continued with him or without him. “I want to survive to show them,” said Litvinenko. “The bastards managed to get me.”

In the coming hours, Alexander Litvinenko’s statement, which he dictated 2 days before his death, will be announced, Echo Moscow reports. This was announced by his friend Alexander Goldfarb - the head of the civil freedom of the Fund. According to him, now this statement is with lawyer Litvinenko.