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Yulia Navalnaya

Yulia Navalnaya

Opposition Leader and Navalny's Widow

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Notable Quotes

Putin killed Alexei with chemical weapon. Vladimir Putin is a murderer. He must be held accountable for all his crimes. — Yulia Navalnaya, February 14, 2026

I was certain from the first day that my husband had been poisoned, but now there is proof: Putin killed Alexei with chemical weapon. I am grateful to the European states for the meticulous work they carried out over two years and for uncovering the truth. Vladimir Putin is a murderer. He must be held accountable for all his crimes. — Yulia Navalnaya, February 14, 2026

Stories

European nations confirm Russia's assassination of Alexei Navalny

Force in Play

Chairperson of Human Rights Foundation; heads Anti-Corruption Foundation

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 found in South American poison dart frogs that does not exist naturally anywhere in Russia. The coordinated announcement at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2026, marks the first formal attribution of Navalny's death to the Russian state, backed by forensic evidence from tissue samples covertly obtained and smuggled out of Russia.

Updated Feb 16