Two years after his death in a Siberian penal colony, the mystery surrounding Alexei Navalny has taken a dramatic turn.
British and European officials now say he was killed with epibatidine — a rare toxin derived from South American dart frogs.
Yes, dart frogs. The kind better known for rainforest documentaries than geopolitical intrigue.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said “only the Russian government had the means, motive and opportunity” to deploy such a substance.
A joint statement from the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands backed that claim.
It argued there is “no innocent explanation” for the toxin’s presence.
Rare Toxin Alleged
Toxicologist Jill Johnson described epibatidine as “200 times more potent than morphine.”
It was capable of triggering paralysis, seizures and respiratory failure.
It’s so rare, she noted, producing it naturally would be “almost impossible.”
Moscow, via Tass, dismissed the findings as an “information campaign.”
But Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, says the evidence confirms what she believed all along: “My husband had been poisoned.”
Navalny survived a Novichok attack in 2020. This time, he didn’t.
A rainforest toxin in a frozen prison. If true, it sends a chilling message — not just about power, but about how far it may go to silence dissent.
