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February 14, 2026
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Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says

Russia killed opposition leader Alexei Navalny using dart frog toxin, UK says

Speaking from the Munich Security Conference, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said "only the Russian government had the means, motive and opportunity" to use the poison while Navalny was imprisoned in Russia. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke..

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The UK and its European allies allege that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed using a poison derived from dart frog toxin. This accusation comes two years after Navalny's death in a Siberian penal colony.

  • The poison used is identified as epibatidine, a toxin extracted from dart frogs.
  • Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper stated at the Munich Security Conference that "only the Russian government had the means, motive and opportunity" to use such a poison.
  • Moscow, through Tass news agency, has dismissed these findings as "an information campaign."
  • Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner, died on February 16, 2024, at the age of 47, having previously been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in 2020.

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