“Of course, we do not accept these accusations, we do not agree with them. We consider them biased and unfounded, and we categorically reject them,” the Kremlin spokesman told the press.

Last Saturday, authorities from Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, and France released a joint statement claiming that Navalny had allegedly been poisoned with epibatidine, a toxin extracted from the skin of Ecuadorian poison dart frogs.

According to the European nations, the conclusions were based on analyses of Navalny’s blood samples.

Against this backdrop, representatives from these countries accused Russia of an alleged violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

In response, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, dismissed these statements as “a hoax intended to divert attention from the West’s urgent problems.”

“When Europe should be presenting the results of the investigation into the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, they decide to bring up the Navalny case again,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman specified.

Alexei Navalny died on February 16, 2024, in a prison in northwestern Russia.

Since then, the Kremlin has called the claims by several Western leaders regarding the alleged involvement of Russian government officials in the opposition leader’s death “outrageous” and “unacceptable.”

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