MOSCOW: Statements made by several Western countries during the Munich Security Conference about the poisoning of blogger Alexei Navalny, who died in 2024 and is listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia, with tree frog poison are unsubstantiated and constitute a mockery of the dead, the Russian Embassy in London stated.
The Russian Embassy in London called Western statements about Alexei Navalny's poisoning a circus performance and necropropaganda, TASS reports.
"We've become accustomed to the feeblemindedness of Western fabricators. What kind of person would you have to be to believe this nonsense about a frog? However, the method chosen by Western politicians – necropropaganda – is truly shocking. This is not a search for justice, but a mockery of the dead." Even after the death of the Russian citizen, London and European capitals cannot give him peace, which speaks volumes about the instigators of this campaign," the statement reads.
The diplomatic mission called the involvement of affiliated media outlets, working in tandem with Western political structures and intelligence agencies, indicative. The embassy believes the purpose of such statements is to artificially fuel anti-Russian sentiment in Western society. "If there's no pretext, they painstakingly invent one," the Russian diplomatic mission stated.
The embassy noted that even after the death of the Russian citizen, London and other European capitals continue to exploit his name for political purposes.
Russian diplomats compared the allegations of Navalny's poisoning to the Skripal case. "Loud accusations, media hysteria, zero evidence, and a multitude of questions that the accusers prefer to ignore. So, in the end: poison from the skin of a South American frog or Novichok?" the diplomatic mission asked.
On February 14, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and France issued a joint statement claiming that Navalny had been poisoned using epibatidine, a poison extracted from the skin of the Ecuadorian poison dart frog. This conclusion was allegedly based on an analysis of Navalny's biological samples. Consequently, the aforementioned countries accused Russia of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova responded by pointing out the lack of evidence for the accusations, noting that the West was using such claims to distract attention from its own problems.
In February 2024, it was reported that Navalny had died in a prison colony in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Shortly before this, the Russian side had discussed the possibility of exchanging Navalny for "certain individuals held in Western prisons."
Previously, the Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed reports that blogger Navalny had allegedly been poisoned with frog poison as a "Western information provocation" and demanded the release of the chemical formulas and test results. Navalny died in February 2024 in Penal Colony No. 3 in the village of Kharp (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), where he was serving a 19-year sentence.
*Alexei Navalny is listed as a terrorist and extremist by Rosfinmonitoring.
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