Russia murdered Alexei Navalny with deadly frog poison, European countries conclude

Alexei Navalny was murdered by Russia with a benignant of frog poison, the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands person concluded.

In a associated connection connected Saturday, the NATO countries said they were "confident" the Russian dissident had been poisoned by the Russian authorities with a "lethal toxin" known arsenic epibatidine, which is recovered successful South American poison dart frogs. The frogs aren't autochthonal to Russia. 

"Russia claimed that Navalny died of earthy causes. But fixed the toxicity of epibatidine and reported symptoms, poisoning was highly apt the origin of his death," the countries wrote. "Navalny died portion held successful prison, meaning Russia had the means, motive and accidental to administer this poison to him." 

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Alexei Navalny was murdered by Russia with a benignant of frog poison, the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands person concluded. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The decision was made based connected samples taken from Navalny's body. 

Navalny, 1 of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s astir almighty opponents, died successful a Russian situation successful Siberia successful 2024 aft helium decided to spell backmost to his location state successful 2021.

Navalny was instantly detained upon his instrumentality to his location state connected charges that included fraud and contempt of tribunal that were wide considered to beryllium politically motivated.

Russia has been accused by respective European countries of poisoning Alexei Navalny to death.  (Kremlin Press Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The activistic was famously brought to a German infirmary successful 2020 to retrieve aft Western powers, including the U.S., accused Russia of poisoning him with a nervus cause known arsenic novichok that was developed by the Soviet Union.

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Alexei Navalny aft an apprehension successful Russia successful 2017.  (Kirill Kudryavtsev/ AFP via Getty Images)

"Russia’s repeated disregard for planetary instrumentality and the Chemical Weapons Convention is clear," the connection said, adding that Russia was besides wide believed to person utilized novichok in England successful 2018, starring to the decease of a British pistillate named Dawn Sturgess.

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"These latest findings erstwhile again underline the request to clasp Russia accountable for its repeated violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and, successful this instance, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention," the connection said.

Alexei Navalny with his woman Yulia successful 2018.  (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The countries added that they had written to the manager wide of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to "inform him of this Russian breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention."