The wife of late Russian opposition leader Alex Navalny said foreign lab results concluded that he was poisoned while serving out a prison sentence at an Arctic penal colony.
“We managed to transfer Alexei’s biological materials abroad. Laboratories in two different countries conducted examinations. These laboratories, independently of each other, concluded that Alexei was poisoned,” Yulia Navalnaya wrote in a Wednesday post on X.
“These results are of public importance and must be published. We all deserve to know the truth,” she added.
Navalnaya said they “killed” her husband in the posted four-minute-long video detailing the detainment of Navalny.
Authorities say that the Russian opposition leader died of a combined illness and rejected claims that he was intentionally killed.
Poison was previously found in Navalny’s body during a 2020 trip to Russia.
He accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of plotting his death.
“I demand that the laboratories that conducted the research publish their results. Stop appeasing Putin for some higher ‘considerations.’ You cannot placate him,” Navalnaya said in the recording.
“While you stay silent, he does not stop.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday declined to comment on Navalnaya’s statements, according to The Associated Press.
