{"id":765597,"date":"2026-02-15T06:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765597\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:56:19","slug":"european-allies-say-navalny-was-poisoned-by-dart-frog-toxin-russia-rejects-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765597\/","title":{"rendered":"European allies say Navalny was poisoned by dart frog toxin; Russia rejects claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a joint statement, <strong>Britain<\/strong>, <strong>France<\/strong>, <strong>Germany<\/strong>, <strong>Sweden <\/strong>and the <strong>Netherlands <\/strong>said tests on samples taken from Navalny\u2019s body had \u201cconclusively\u201d detected epibatidine, a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America and not naturally present in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, which has repeatedly denied responsibility for Navalny\u2019s death, rejected the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>The state news agency <strong>TASS <\/strong>cited officials describing it as \u201ca Western propaganda hoax\u201d, while the Russian embassy in London mocked the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Britain said the suspected poisoning reflected \u201can alarming pattern of behaviour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UK previously held a public inquiry into the 2018 poisoning in Britain of former Russian double agent <strong>Sergei Skripal<\/strong>, and last year concluded Russian President <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack.<\/p>\n<p>TASS quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson <strong>Maria Zakharova<\/strong> as saying Moscow would comment once test results were available and the substance formulas disclosed, adding that, until then, such claims were propaganda intended to distract from Western problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a joint statement, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said tests on samples taken from Navalny\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5187,224406,332,224407],"class_list":["post-765597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-european","tag-poisoned","tag-russia","tag-toxin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116073344873478329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}