US EditionHow Putin creates poisons that make victims foam at mouth, vomit, and convulse
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How Putin creates poisons that make victims foam at mouth, vomit, and convulse
Russia officially ended its chemical weapons programme in 2017 and destroyed its inventory. But few believe it has really ended. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert and adviser, said this claim “was a complete lie”. Recent revelations that Alexei Navalny, a vocal Kremlin critic, was killed with a lethal dart frog poison have drawn fresh attention to institutes previously linked to Russia’s biological weapons. The toxin, epibatidi…
Alexey Navalny was killed with an unusual substance: the poison of a frog from Ecuador. A Russian doctor, who saved the life of the opponent a few years ago, has a guess.
Alexandr Polupan was involved in the rescue of Alexey Navalnyi in 2020. He understands why the regime put on another poison in the second attempt.
When several European countries, led by Britain, announced in mid-February that Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with epibatidine in a prison camp, doctor Alexander Polupan, who cared for the Russian opposition leader after the poisoning, was surprised. He had not known anything about the toxin from the South American poison frog from Ecuador until then, and points out that no cases of its use in humans have yet been described in the professiona…
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