Yulia Navalnaya, wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “murderer” as she backed the claims that her husband was poisoned.
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of the late Russian opposition leader
Alexei Navalny, called Russian President
Vladimir Putin a “murderer” as she backed the claims that her husband was poisoned. Navalnaya’s accusations against Putin came shortly after scientists of five European nations concluded that Navalny was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin.
“Scientists from five European countries have established: my husband, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned with epibatidine — a neurotoxin, one of the deadliest poisons on earth. In nature, this poison can be found on the skin of the Ecuadorian dart frog. It causes paralysis, respiratory arrest, and a painful death,” Navalnaya wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Scientists from five European countries have established: my husband, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned with epibatidine — a neurotoxin, one of the deadliest poisons on earth. In nature, this poison can be found on the skin of the Ecuadorian dart frog. It causes paralysis, respiratory… pic.twitter.com/doHGgSgzMA
— Yulia Navalnaya (@yulia_navalnaya) February 14, 2026
The wife of the Russian opposition leader insisted that she was certain from day 1 that her husband was poisoned. “I was certain from the first day that my husband had been poisoned, but now there is proof: Putin killed Alexei with a chemical weapon. I am grateful to the European states for the meticulous work they carried out over two years and for uncovering the truth,” Navalnaya wrote.
“Vladimir Putin is a murderer. He must be held accountable for all his crimes,” she concluded. Two years after Navalny’s death at a Siberian penal colony,
scientists from the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands accused the Kremlin of his killing, after analysing material samples found on his body.
Kremlin denies the accusations
Russia has hit back at claims from the United Kingdom and other allies, calling it a “disinformation campaign”.
Maria Zakharova, a spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry, told the TASS news agency that the allegations “are a disinformation campaign by the West”.
“There will be results of the analyses, there will be formulas of the substances, and there will be a commentary. Without this, all the talks and statements are an information campaign aimed at diverting attention from the pressing problems of the West,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK has taken a similar stance on the matter. “This isn’t a quest for justice, but a mockery of the dead. Even after the death of a Russian citizen, London and European capitals cannot give him peace, which speaks volumes about the instigators of this campaign,” it says.
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