Alexei Navalny. Photo by Evgeny Feldman
The Russian state — that is, Putin — killed Navalny*. This conclusion was reached by independent laboratories from five countries, including the United Kingdom. Their statements say that the leader of the Russian opposition and prisoner of the special regime colony No. 3 «Polar Wolf», located 60 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, was killed by poison from the skin of an Ecuadorian frog. This was established based on the study of biological material taken from Navalny's body and taken out of Russia.
The murder in Kharp — this was at least the third attempt to poison Navalny, which, unfortunately, succeeded. The first time he was poisoned was in 2017, but they clearly miscalculated the dose, the second time — in August 2020, but Navalny was lucky: his wife managed to take him on a private medical plane to a clinic in Berlin, and the German Bundeswehr had samples of the latest versions of the Russian chemical weapon of mass destruction «Novichok», which the oprichniks did not know about, but which allowed an antidote to be created and thus saved Navalny. On February 16, 2024, Putin's agents, operating on the territory of the «Polar Wolf» colony, used the synthesized neurotoxin Epibatidine, a chemical weapon, as a result of which Navalny died in agony, and Putin's potential opponents once again shuddered — none of them can feel safe when a malicious, vengeful, obsessed with his own impunity war criminal is in power in a vast nuclear power.
In one thing, Putin cannot be denied — an acute instinct for self-preservation and a sense of the enemy. Such an enemy, capable of taking power from the Russian dictator, was Alexei Navalny.
* Alexei Navalny — in the Russian Federation, included in the list of «terrorists and extremists».