00:17Did Vladimir Putin order the killing of Russia's most famous opposition leader?
00:22Two years after Alexei Navalny's sudden death in a remote Arctic prison colony,
00:28the U.K. government has made a bombshell claim.
00:31Navalny was allegedly killed using a poison derived from a dart frog toxin.
00:37And they say only the Russian state had the means, motive, and opportunity.
00:43Alexei Navalny, anti-corruption crusader, political activist,
00:47and the most prominent critic of Vladimir Putin,
00:50died on February 16, 2024, inside a Siberian penal colony.
00:56Russian officials said he felt unwell after a walk, collapsed, and never regained consciousness.
01:03But his family never believed that version.
01:06Now Britain and several European allies say toxicology analysis found traces of ipobatidine,
01:13a powerful toxin originally derived from certain species of poison dart frogs.
01:18According to the U.K. Foreign Office, there is no innocent explanation for it being present in samples taken from
01:26Navalny's body.
01:27Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said,
01:33only the Russian government had the means, motive, and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin.
01:39The U.K. has been joined by France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands in formally accusing Russia.
01:46They've even informed the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
01:51claiming a potential breach of international law.
01:54That's a serious escalation.
01:57This wasn't the first time Navalny was poisoned.
02:00Back in 2020, he survived an attack involving a Novichak nerve agent, a Soviet-era chemical weapon.
02:08He was treated in Germany, then arrested immediately upon returning to Russia.
02:13After that, he spent three years behind bars,
02:16transferred to one of Russia's harshest Arctic penal colonies.
02:19Then, suddenly, he was gone.
02:22Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnyia, has long insisted her husband was murdered.
02:28After the U.K.'s announcement, she said,
02:30I was certain from the first day that my husband had been poisoned, but now there is proof.
02:36The Kremlin has not commented on the latest claims.
02:39Putin himself never even said Navalny's name publicly while he was alive.
02:44After his death, he referred vaguely to a person passing.
02:48So what does this mean?
02:50If the allegations are true,
02:52this would mark one of the most chilling and sophisticated poisonings in modern political history.
02:58A toxin derived from nature, used inside a high-security prison,
03:04against the Kremlin's most persistent critic.
03:07But Russia denies wrongdoing,
03:09and as of now, no independent international body has publicly released full forensic findings.
03:16Was Navalny silenced by a state-ordered poisoning?
03:19Or will this remain another geopolitical accusation lost in the fog of East-West tensions?
03:26Two years on, the questions are louder than ever.
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