LONDON — 5 European nations say Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a deadly toxin, and are blaming the Russian state for the assault.
The overseas ministries of the U.Ok., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands stated Saturday that evaluation of samples from Navalny, who died two years in the past, “have conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.” It’s a toxin present in poison dart frogs in South America.
The nations stated that “solely the Russian state had the mixed means, motive and disrespect for worldwide legislation” to hold out the assault.
They stated they had been reporting Russia to the Group for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for a breach of the Chemical Weapons Conference.
Navalny, who crusaded in opposition to official corruption and staged large anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died within the Arctic penal colony in February 2024. He was serving a 19-year sentence that he believed to be politically motivated.
Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, stated final 12 months that two impartial labs had discovered that her husband was poisoned shortly earlier than his demise.Navalnaya has repeatedly blamed Putin for Navalny’s demise, one thing Russian officers have vehemently denied.
