FILE PHOTO: Russian businessman Dmitry Kovtun attends an interview on Ekho Moskvy radio in Moscow in this November 24, 2006 REUTERS/Ekho Moskvy/Handout/File Photo
(Reuters) - Dmitry Kovtun, one of two Russian men accused by Britain of poisoning Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, has died of COVID-19 in a Moscow hospital, TASS news agency said on Saturday.
Litvinenko died weeks after drinking green tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 at London's Millennium Hotel, where he met Kovtun and the other suspect, Andrei Lugovoy.
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