Former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died of poisoning while imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his wife Yulia Navalnaya has claimed.
According to her, smuggled laboratory samples confirmed the presence of poison in his body. Reports indicate that two separate foreign laboratories independently conducted tests, both reaching the same conclusion.
When questioned on the matter at a press briefing earlier today, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said he was unaware of such claims.
Navalny, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in February 2024 at the age of 47 while serving a sentence in a remote prison facility. According to Russia’s prison service, he collapsed and lost consciousness while walking in the prison yard before being pronounced dead.
