The Kremlin is furious at the accusations of European countries: ‘We didn’t kill Navalny with frog poison!’

The Russian dissident died at the age of 47, a month before Putin was re-elected by a landslide in an election that Western nations called irregular.

Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands announced in a joint statement published on Saturday that analyzes of samples from Navalny’s body “convincingly” confirmed the presence of epibatidine. Riverč is about a toxin present in South American poison ivy, which does not occur naturally on the territory of Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that Moscow interprets the European accusations, which it claims are false, in a very negative light.

“Of course, we do not accept such accusations. We do not agree with them. We consider them biased and unfounded. In fact, we strongly reject them,” said Peskov.

The Russian authorities, who declared Navalny’s movement extremist and banned it, previously rejected accusations by his widow Yulia Navalny that the state killed him, claiming that he died of natural causes.

Back in 2020, Navalny barely survived an assassination attempt after being poisoned with the chemical agent noviko.