RUSSIA’S NAVALNY POISONED WITH DART FROG TOXIN: EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Sun 15 February 2026:

Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison camp two years ago, was murdered by the Russian state using a powerful frog toxin, the governments of Germany, Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands said on Saturday.

The countries said analyses of Navalny’s remains showed traces of the highly potent toxin epibatidine, and accused Moscow of killing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s biggest foe.

The announcement was made by German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul and his counterparts on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, where dozens of world leaders and top defence officials have gathered for three days of talks.

Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, who was present at the announcement, said the findings proved that Putin was a murderer.

Wadephul said the new analyses had clarified the cause of death. “Alexei Navalny was poisoned in Russian custody,” he said.

According to the German minister, the remains contained epibatidine, an extremely potent nerve toxin found in the skin secretions of certain poison dart frogs in Ecuador.

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He said the substance was about 200 times stronger than morphine and paralysed the respiratory muscles, causing victims to suffocate.

It was not immediately clear when, where or how the analyses were carried out.

Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnya, said it was now “science-proven” that the Kremlin opponent had been murdered.

“Two years ago, I came on stage here and said that it was Vladimir Putin who killed my husband,” Navalnaya said on the sidelines of the conference in Germany.

“I was of course certain that it was a murder… but back then it was just words. But today, these words have become science-proven facts,” Navalnaya added.

Navalnaya last September said that laboratory analysis of smuggled biological samples found her husband was killed by poisoning.

“Today, beside his widow, the UK is shining a light on the Kremlin’s barbaric plot to silence his voice,” UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, who met Navalnaya while attending the Munich conference, said in a statement.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot paid “tribute” to Navalny after the findings.

“We now know that Vladimir Putin is prepared to use biological weapons against his own people to remain in power,” Barrot said in a post on X.

Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said: “I am proud that together we have been able to contribute to the truth coming out and that the evidence is now available to hold Russia accountable.”

The Kremlin denies the charges.

Navalny’s death in February 2024 prompted international condemnation and accusations from Western governments that the Kremlin was responsible. Moscow has repeatedly denied involvement in his death.

Moscow has never fully explained Navalny’s death, saying only that he fell ill and collapsed during a walk in his Arctic prison colony. Navalny and his foundation were considered “extremist” by the Russian authorities.

The European countries said they had reported Russia to the world’s chemical weapons watchdog — the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — over the finding.

“We are further concerned that Russia did not destroy all of its chemical weapons,” the countries said, accusing Moscow of breaching the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Navalny was previously poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok in 2020 while campaigning in Siberia and was flown to Germany on an emergency evacuation flight, where he spent months recovering.

Jailed upon his return to Russia in January 2021, he was convicted on a series of charges, including “extremism”, but continued to campaign against Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from behind bars.

The charismatic anti-corruption campaigner had rallied hundreds of thousands across Russia in anti-Kremlin protests as he exposed the alleged ill-gotten gains of Putin’s inner circle.

Putin’s main political opponent, Navalny was the only opposition leader who was able to galvanise big protests in Russia.

Source: Independent Press and News Agencies

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