US EditionUK and Allies Says Navalny Killed with Rare Dart Frog Toxin
- On February 14, 2026, the foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analyses conclusively confirmed epibatidine on Alexei Navalny's body.
- Officials argue the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to poison Navalny while he was held in an Arctic penal colony in Siberia, viewing him as a regime threat.
- Scientists and ministers pointed to epibatidine as about 200 times stronger than morphine, Johann Wadephul called it `particularly strong`, and officials say how it was administered years ago remains unclear.
- Britain and allies plan to notify the OPCW and report Russia for breaching the Chemical Weapons Convention, while more than 400 people were detained in Russia after Navalny's death.
- His prior Novichok poisoning and return to Russia underscore that Yulia Navalnaya said two labs found her husband poisoned last year and she blamed Vladimir Putin.
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AlKhaleej TodayRussian poisonings aim to kill — and send a message
PARIS, Feb 17 — Polonium, Novichok and now dart frog poison: the finding that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed with a rare toxin has revived the spectre of Moscow’s use of poisons against opponents—a hallmark of its secret services, according to experts.The neurotoxin epibatidine, found in Ecuadoran frogs, was identified in laboratory analyses of samples from Navalny’s body, the British, Swedish, French, German and Dutch gover…
Experts on South American poison dart frogs say they believe the venom believed to have killed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was likely a synthetic version produced in a laboratory rather than collected directly from nature. Authorities in several European countries claimed on Saturday that Navalny – a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin – was killed...
Russian poisonings aim to kill -- and send a message
Polonium, Novichok and now dart frog poison: the finding that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed with a rare toxin has revived the spectre of Moscow’s use of poisons against opponents -- a hallmark of its secret services, according to experts.
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Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny killed by lethal toxins, US 'not disputing' Euro report
Five European countries state that Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny died in prison as a result of a lethal toxin discovered in poison dart frogs.
Navalny died exactly two years ago.
Kremlin Rejects Claim it Poisoned Navalny with Dart Frog Toxin, Widow Says Truth is Out
The Kremlin on Monday flatly rejected accusations from five European countries that the Russian state had killed Alexei Navalny two years ago using toxin from poison dart frogs, but his widow said the truth had finally been proven. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critic, died on February 16, 2024, in the "Polar Wolf" penal colony north of the Arctic Circle about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. He was 47, R…
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