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Kremlin rejects claim it poisoned Navalny with dart frog toxin

 Published: 12:21, 17 February 2026

Kremlin rejects claim it poisoned Navalny with dart frog toxin

The Kremlin on Monday flatly rejected accusations from five European countries that the Russian state had killed Alexei Navalny two years ago using toxin from poison dart frogs, but his widow said the truth had finally been proven.

Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critic, died on 16 February 2024, in the "Polar Wolf" penal colony north of the Arctic Circle about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. He was 47.

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