He denies the five charges that the Russian state killed the late Kremlin critic, , two years ago, using a toxin derived from poisonous frogs. The representative of , Dimitri Peskov in the press briefing described the allegations as “baseless”.
Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and a staunch critic of President Vladimir Putin, died in February 2024 aged 47 in a remote Arctic prison, a month before Putin was re-elected overwhelmingly in an election that Western countries said was neither free nor fair.
The accusations and what Peskov answered
In a joint statement Saturday from the Munich Security Conference, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands, in the presence of Navalny’s widow, Yulia, said that analyzes of samples from Navalny’s body “categorically” confirmed the presence of epibatidine, a toxin found in South American poison frogs.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow views the European accusations particularly negatively, stressing that they are false.
“Of course, we do not accept such accusations. We completely disagree. We consider them biased and unfounded. And, in fact, we categorically reject them,” said Peskov.
Russian authorities, who have outlawed Navalny’s movement as extremist, have previously rejected accusations by his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, that the state was responsible for his death, saying he died of natural causes.
