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According to the report, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin, the UK and European allies have said. Two years on from the death of Navalny at a Siberian penal colony, Britain and its allies have blamed the Kremlin following analysis of material samples found on his body.
The report stated that, speaking from the Munich Security Conference, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said only the Russian government had the means, motive, and opportunity to use the poison while Navalny was imprisoned in Russia.
According to the Tass news agency, Moscow has dismissed the finding as an information campaign, but Cooper said there is no explanation for the toxin, called epibatidine, being found.
The report said that while Cooper announced the findings, a joint statement was issued by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Cooper met with Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, at the conference this weekend.
The report added that Russia saw Navalny as a threat. It said that by using this form of poison, the Russian state demonstrated the despicable tools it has at its disposal and the overwhelming fear it has of political opposition.
In the statement, the allies said: only the Russian state had the means, motive, and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin to target Navalny during his imprisonment in a Russian penal colony in Siberia, and we hold it responsible for his death.
Additionally, epibatidine can be found naturally in dart frogs in the wild in South America. Dart frogs in captivity do not produce this toxin, and it is not found naturally in Russia. There is no innocent explanation for its presence in Navalny's body.
Source: BBC
The report stated that, speaking from the Munich Security Conference, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said only the Russian government had the means, motive, and opportunity to use the poison while Navalny was imprisoned in Russia.
According to the Tass news agency, Moscow has dismissed the finding as an information campaign, but Cooper said there is no explanation for the toxin, called epibatidine, being found.
The report said that while Cooper announced the findings, a joint statement was issued by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Cooper met with Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, at the conference this weekend.
The report added that Russia saw Navalny as a threat. It said that by using this form of poison, the Russian state demonstrated the despicable tools it has at its disposal and the overwhelming fear it has of political opposition.
In the statement, the allies said: only the Russian state had the means, motive, and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin to target Navalny during his imprisonment in a Russian penal colony in Siberia, and we hold it responsible for his death.
Additionally, epibatidine can be found naturally in dart frogs in the wild in South America. Dart frogs in captivity do not produce this toxin, and it is not found naturally in Russia. There is no innocent explanation for its presence in Navalny's body.
Source: BBC