Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, claims foreign laboratory tests show he was poisoned. Thinbaud Moritz/AFP/Getty Images

Laboratory tests of smuggled samples taken from late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny show that he was poisoned when he was imprisoned in a Siberian penal colony, his widow Yulia Navalnaya has said.

Tests were carried out independently by two separate overseas laboratories, with both reaching the same conclusion, according to Navalnaya.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said during a press conference Wednesday morning that he was “unaware” of the claims.

Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin , died aged 47 in a penal colony north of the Arctic Circle in February 2024. According to the R

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