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Kremlin: Accusations of five European countries over Navalny poisoning politically motivated

2026-02-16 16:46:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Kremlin: Accusations of five European countries over Navalny poisoning

The Kremlin has categorically rejected claims by five European countries that Russia poisoned and killed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during his imprisonment in 2024.

Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said in a joint statement that laboratory tests of samples from Navalny's body confirmed the presence of a very rare poisonous substance, epibatidine, a toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs in South America and not found naturally in Russia.

According to these states, only the Russian state had the means, motive, and opportunity to carry out this attack on Navalny.

The countries said they would report the matter to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

The Kremlin and Russian officials strongly denied the accusation, calling it baseless, unfounded and politically motivated. They said they completely reject the claim and dismissed it as untrue.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that these accusations are one-sided and have no concrete evidence, and that Russia refuses to be the subject of them.

Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, died in an Arctic prison on February 16, 2024, while serving a 19-year sentence for “extremism,” charges he and his supporters said were political.

Until now, Russian authorities had said he died of natural causes, but European analysis says the presence of epibatidine in the body makes deliberate poisoning highly likely./CNA 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 





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