The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died two years ago, poisoned by the Kremlin. with a lethal toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America, according to the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands after analyzing samples from the political prisoner. "These analyses have conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine. Epibatidine is a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America and is not found naturally in Russia," explained the foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, and Germany. "Russia claimed that Navalny died of natural causes. However, given the toxicity of epibatidine and the symptoms described, it is highly likely that the cause of his death was poisoning," the ministers stated, two years after his death. Navalny died on February 16, 2024, while imprisoned in Russia, meaning that Moscow "had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to administer this poison to him," according to these five European governments.

Two Western laboratories Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny confirmed poisoning, according to his widow, Yulia Navalnaya. In a video published this Wednesday, the activist explains that her husband's biological samples were sent abroad shortly after his death. Died in a penal colony on February 16, 2024, and that at least two scientific teams have independently reached the same conclusion.

Ilya Yashin is a Russian opposition politician who was released from prison on August 1, in the prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. Since his exile in Germany, he has been touring several European cities to reach out to the Russian diaspora, which has taken him to Barcelona.