"LONDON -- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the Kremlin with a rare and lethal toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs, five European countries said Saturday. The foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analysis of samples taken from Navalny's body "conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine." It is a neurotoxin found in the skin of dart frogs in South America that is not found naturally in Russia, they said."
"Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16, 2024. He was serving a 19-year sentence that he believed to be politically motivated. "Russia saw Navalny as a threat," British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said. "By using this form of poison the Russian state demonstrated the despicable tools it has at its disposal and the overwhelming fear it has of political opposition.""
Samples taken from Alexei Navalny's body conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine, a neurotoxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs in South America and not naturally occurring in Russia. The foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to administer the poison and that they will report the case to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence. His widow said she was certain he had been poisoned and called for accountability.
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