Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death (14 February 2026)

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.
Epibatidine is a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America. It is not found naturally in Russia.
Russia claimed that Navalny died of natural causes. But given the toxicity of epibatidine and reported (…)