Kremlin rejects claim it poisoned Navalny with dart frog toxin, widow says truth is out

A person lays flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny while marking the first anniversary of his death at a cemetery in Moscow, Russia, February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

MOSCOW, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on ⁠Monday flatly rejected accusations from five European countries that the Russian state had killed Alexei Navalny two years ago ⁠using toxin from poison dart frogs, but his widow said the truth had finally been proven.

Navalny, President Vladimir ‌Putin's most prominent domestic critic, died on February 16, 2024, in the "Polar Wolf" penal colony north of the Arctic Circle about 1,900 km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. He was 47.