Litvinenko, who fled to London in 2000, fell ill on November 1st, hours after he had tea with KGB officer-turned-businessman Andrei Lugovoi and another Russian businessman, Dmitry Kovtun, at the Millennium Hotel's Pine Bar in the British capital.
Litvinenko, koji je pobjegao u London 2000. godine, razbolio se 1. studenog, nekoliko sati nakon što je otišao na čaj s bivšim časnikom KGB-a, a sada poduzetnikom Andrei Lugovoiem i drugim ruskim poduzetnikom Dmitry Kovtunom, u Pine bar hotela Millennium u glavnom gradu Britanije.