Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Force in Play

Received formal complaint against Russia from five European nations

Alexei Navalny survived one poisoning attempt with a military-grade nerve agent in August 2020. He did not survive the second. On the two-year anniversary of his death in an Arctic prison, five European nations announced laboratory confirmation that Russian authorities killed him with epibatidine, a toxin from South American poison dart frogs.

Updated May 29