Traces of the toxin were found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said in a joint statement.
Foreign ministries from the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said testing conducted on samples taken from Navalny, who died two years ago, “have conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.”
In a joint statement, the foreign ministries of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands say Navalny was poisoned by Russia with a lethal toxin derived from the skin of poison dart frogs.