"The Foreign Office has blamed the Russian state for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it said was the result of poisoning from a dart frog toxin. The frog poison called epibatidine is said to have been used when Navalny, 47, died suddenly on 16 February 2024. Yulia Navalnaya, the Russian dissident's widow, announced the finding at a press conference at the Munich security conference."
"She was flanked by the foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. Navalnaya announced her husband's death at the same gathering in 2024. Navalny was being held in a jail about 40 miles (64km) north of the Arctic Circle when he died. He had been sentenced to decades in prison to be served in a special regime."
"Traces of epibatidine were found after analysis of material samples found on Navalny's body. The UK government said that the poison is found naturally in dart frogs in the wild in South America, but that when the frogs are in captivity they do not produce the substance, which is also not found naturally in Russia. A statement concluded: There is no innocent explanation for its presence in Navalny's body."
Epibatidine, a dart-frog toxin, was identified in material samples taken from Alexei Navalny's body after he died on 16 February 2024 at age 47. Yulia Navalnaya announced the finding at the Munich security conference. Navalny was jailed about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle and serving decades under a special regime. Navalny's allies accuse the Kremlin of killing him; Russian officials attribute his death to multiple diseases including arrhythmia from hypertension. The UK says epibatidine is native to South American wild dart frogs, absent in captive frogs and not found in Russia, and has reported the case to the OPCW alleging a Chemical Weapons Convention violation. Historic poison attacks cited include Litvinenko and Skripal.
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