Jailed Putin critic Navalny ‘poisoned with dart frog toxin administered by Kremlin’

The UK and allies believe that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a chemical weapon while in a Siberian penal colony

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died while in prison, was poisoned by a deadly toxin used by indigenous South American tribes, the UK and allies have claimed.

Found in Ecuadorian dart frogs, the neurotoxin is classed as a chemical weapon, and could have only been carried out on Vladimir Putin’s orders, they said.

Called epibatidine, it is not understood how the frog poison was allegedly administered to Navalny, who had been in a Siberian penal colony when he died, on February 16, 2024.

It’s understood that South American tribes use epibatidine in blow guns or darts while hunting. It is 200 times stronger than morphine.

Surrounded by foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow, appeared at a press conference part of a security conference in Munich to announce the discovery.

Along with France, the four countries have been working together to determine how Navalny died.

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