US EditionKremlin Rejects European Claim Navalny Died of Poisoning
Five European nations found epibatidine toxin in Navalny's body, pointing to Russian state involvement; Kremlin denies and calls claims baseless, with Britain considering new sanctions.
- As Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, the Kremlin rejected claims by five European countries that Navalny was poisoned, calling them 'biased and unfounded.'
- Collaborative laboratory work confirmed epibatidine in Alexei Navalny’s samples, and the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office judged it highly likely caused his death.
- Britain's foreign office said `We hold it responsible for his death`, while Yvette Cooper, Britain's Foreign Secretary, said Sunday they are considering `increasing sanctions on the Russian regime`; Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, said Washington was not disputing the European assessment.
- The U.K. filed a report with the Organisation on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons alleging breaches of the Chemical Weapons Convention, challenging Russia's account that Navalny died of natural causes.
- Given Navalny was also targeted in 2020, experts note epibatidine can be synthetically produced, while Lyudmila Navalnaya said, `This confirms what we knew from the very beginning. We knew that our son did not simply die in prison, he was murdered.
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Alexei Navalny and Russia’s history of poisonings
Moscow is calling it “necro-propaganda” but intelligence services and chemical weapons experts from five European countries are united in their verdict: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed by a rare toxin found in some poison dart frogs.Traces of epibatidine, a neurotoxin 200 times more potent than morphine, were found in samples taken from Navalny’s body after he died, two years ago, in a Siberian penal colony. Only the Russian …
On the eve of the second anniversary of the death of Alexey Naval, five European countries announced that the Russian politician was "highly probable" with poison. A statement from the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands indicated that A. Naval was poisoned using a rare toxin of epibatidin extracted from the skin of an Ecuadorian frog.
‘Absurd Insinuations’: Russia Rejects Navalny Poisoning Claims in Note to Chemical Weapons Watchdog
Russia has rejected a joint UK and EU statement alleging that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was killed with epibatidine — a rare poison dart frog toxin — dismissing the claims as politically motivated.
According to their statement, these are "absurd insinuations."
What We Know About the Frog Toxin That Killed Navalny
Investigators in five European countries say Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death was caused by a toxin found in frogs like the Anthony's poison arrow frog and the Phantasmal poison frog—species normally found in the wild in South America, not around Siberian prison colonies. Epibatidine . The BBC reports that...
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