The mother of the late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny says the assessment that her son died of poisoning has validated her belief that he was murdered.
On Saturday, the UK and European allies put out a statement saying Navalny, who died in 2024, was killed using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin, and that "only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin".
"This confirms what we knew from the very beginning," Lyudmila Navalnaya said while visiting her son's grave in Moscow on Monday - the second anniversary of his death. "We knew that our son did not simply die in prison, he was murdered."
Russia has firmly rejected the accusations.
"Of course, we do not accept such accusations. We disagree with them, we consider them biased and unfounded. And, in fact, we resolutely reject them," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
