A former Russian state TV journalist has suggested that Vladimir Putin “doesn’t have enough Novichok” to kill his growing number of critics.

Speaking to Beth Rigby Interviews on Sky News, dissident Marina Ovsyannikova also explained that Russians are facing “repressions of Stalin’s scale”.

“I think that Putin doesn’t have enough Novichok for all his opponents,” she explained.

“Because actually when the war started, many more people started speaking against the regime and many more will do that,” she said.