European allies' findings that Putin critic Alexei Navalny was killed with a rare toxin from poison dart frogs is "troubling," said Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, adding the U.S. is not disputing the report. The big picture: Rubio told reporters in Bratislava during a visit to Slovakia "we don't have any reason to question" the report that the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands issued Saturday, which the Kremlin disputes. - The report follows Yulia Navalnaya , the Russian opposition leader's widow, saying in September that that labs in "at least two countries" separately examined "smuggled" samples of Navalny's biological material and concluded he had been poisoned. What they found…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds a press conference with Prime Minister Fico from Slovakia. He answers questions from a reporter on plans with Iran, Navalny poisoning and gives thoughts about capturing of Maduro from Venezuela.
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.
