Navalny’s mother is calling for justice, claiming her son was poisoned in prison

The harshest critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin died on February 16, 2024 in the Arctic prison colony, where he was serving his sentence, having been sentenced to 19 years in prison.

The foreign ministries of Great Britain, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands issued a statement two days ago claiming that Navalny was killed by epibatidine, a deadly poison made from the skin of a South American (Ecuadorian) poisonous frog. The statement states that such a conclusion was reached based on the results of studies of the biomaterials of Alexei Navalny’s body.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denied this yesterday, saying “all such claims are mere propaganda aimed at diverting attention from the West’s pressing problems.” “When the results of the tests are available and the formulas of the materials are revealed, we will make appropriate comments,” Zakharova said, according to TASS.

Meanwhile, today Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, told reporters at her son’s grave that they knew from the very beginning that her son “didn’t just die in prison, he was killed.”

“I’m sure it will take some time, but we’ll find out who did it. Naturally, we want this to happen in our country, and we want justice to prevail,” said the opposition figure’s mother.

This morning dozens of people visited Navalny’s grave, including foreign diplomats.