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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Germany and four other European countries, according to their own statements, have evidence that the Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was poisoned in Russian prison. He died on 16 February 2024 in a penal colony in Siberia - according to Russian statements of natural death.
New analyses indicate that Alexei Navalny was killed with a strong nerve poison.
The Russian government murdered the opponent Alexei Navalni with a deadly toxin, the epibatidine, derived from Ecuador’s poisonous dart frog. The same substance used at the tip of its arrows by the indigenous tribes of that country. This formal accusation against the Kremlin has been reflected in the joint communiqué that the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden have launched this Saturday at the Munich Security Conference.
Russian opposition figure Navalny killed by toxin found in poison dart frogs, Europeans say
Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who died two years ago, was killed while in prison by a lethal toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America, five European countries have said in a statement today.
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