The UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and Sweden released a joint statement announcing that laboratory tests confirmed opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine, a toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs.

The UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands are confident that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin. This is the conclusion of our Governments based on analyses of samples from Alexei Navalny. These analyses have conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.

The neurotoxin is found in poison of dart frogs in South America and is not found naturally anywhere in Russia.

Russia claimed that Navalny died of natural causes. But given the toxicity of epibatidine and reported symptoms, poisoning was highly likely the cause of his death.

Five European governments concluded in a joint statement on Feb 14 that Alexei Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine based on laboratory analysis of his biological samples.

The Kremlin denied the accusations that Navalny was murdered via poisoning.

Volodymyr Zelensky stated he did not fear assassination by poison, noting Russia attacks with drones and missiles.