"Five European countries the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands have accused Russia of poisoning and killing opposition leader Alexey Navalny in 2024 based on lab results from a sample taken from his body. The five governments said in a statement on Saturday that tissue samples conclusively confirmed the lethal toxin epibatidine. The poison is found in wild dart frogs from South America."
"Russia had the means, motive, and opportunity to administer this poison, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office added in a statement. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told state-run RIA Novosti news agency she'll comment once the test results are publicly presented something she noted has not yet been done. The five countries said they're reporting Russia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention."
"Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence he called politically motivated. Epibatidine is found naturally in dart frogs and can also be manufactured in a lab, something European scientists suspect was the case in the alleged poisoning of Navalny. The poison works by causing shortness of breath, convulsions, seizures and a slowed heart rate and can kill on contact."
Five European governments — the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands — say laboratory analysis of tissue samples taken from Alexey Navalny's body conclusively detected the lethal toxin epibatidine. Epibatidine occurs naturally in South American dart frogs and can be manufactured in a lab; European scientists suspect a synthetic source. The five countries assert Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to administer the poison and reported Russia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for breaching the Chemical Weapons Convention. Navalny died on February 16, 2024, in an Arctic penal colony while serving a 19-year sentence.
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