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Alexei Navalny ‘Killed by Dart Frog Toxin’, UK and European Allies Allege
LONDON / MUNICH, 14–15 Feb 2026 — A coalition of Western governments has issued a dramatic and detailed accusation that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin derived from the skin of poison dart frogs — and that Russia is responsible for his death.
In a joint statement released during the Munich Security Conference, the foreign ministries of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said analyses of biological samples taken from Navalny’s body “conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine” — a rare neurotoxin normally found only in wild poison dart frogs in South America.
What the Allies Say the Evidence Shows
According to the statement:
• Epibatidine, a potent toxin not naturally present in Russia, was found in body samples linked to Navalny.
• The presence of this substance — which can cause fatal respiratory and neurological damage — strongly indicates deliberate poisoning rather than natural causes.
• The five governments claim that only the Russian state had the “means, motive and opportunity” to administer such a toxin while Navalny was imprisoned.
• They are reporting the findings to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), asserting that this would breach international chemical weapons conventions.
Navalny’s Death — Background
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, died on 16 February 2024 while serving a 19-year prison sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony — a punishment widely seen in the West as politically motivated.
Russian authorities initially claimed Navalny died of natural causes, citing health issues. But his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, and Western officials contested that explanation, and Navalny had previously survived a 2020 poisoning attempt with a nerve agent widely attributed to Russian operatives.
At last year’s Munich Security Conference, Navalnaya publicly alleged her husband had been poisoned. On Saturday, she welcomed the new findings as confirmation of what she already believed — that Navalny’s death was a deliberate killing, saying the evidence now amounts to a “science-proven fact.”
Western Reaction and Next Steps
Top European diplomats have portrayed the revelations as part of a broader pattern of Russian use of chemical agents against opponents, referencing past cases such as the 2018 Salisbury nerve agent attack and the 2006 assassination of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium.
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and her counterparts say they will pursue accountability mechanisms through international law and are urging further action from other nations and organisations.
Russian Government Response
Moscow has firmly rejected the accusations, dismissing them as Western propaganda and a political effort to shift attention from broader geopolitical issues. Russian officials maintain that Navalny’s death was due to natural causes, challenging the scientific and interpretive basis of the Western analysis.
Significance
If the claims stand up to further scrutiny and independent verification, they would mark one of the most serious allegations of state-sanctioned chemical killing of a political opponent in recent decades — further straining relations between Russia and European powers and intensifying global criticism of the Kremlin’s conduct.
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