MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Monday (Feb 16) flatly rejected accusations from five European countries that the Russian state had killed Alexei Navalny two years in the past using toxin from poison dart frogs, however his widow mentioned the reality had lastly been confirmed.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most outstanding home critic, died on Feb 16, 2024, within the “Polar Wolf” penal colony north of the Arctic Circle about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. He was 47.
His dying, which the Russian state mentioned was from pure causes, occurred a month earlier than Putin was re-elected for a fifth time period in a landslide vote which Western nations mentioned was neither free nor honest resulting from censorship and a crackdown on opponents.
Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands mentioned on Saturday that analyses of samples from Navalny’s physique had “conclusively” confirmed the presence of epibatidine, a toxin present in poison dart frogs in South America and never discovered naturally in Russia.
“Navalny died whereas held in jail, which means Russia had the means, motive and alternative to manage this poison to him,” they mentioned.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the allegations.
“Naturally, we don’t settle for such accusations. We disagree with them. We think about them biased and never based mostly on something. And we strongly reject them,” Peskov informed reporters.
