The widow of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that tests conducted by two foreign laboratories confirm he was poisoned prior to his death in prison last year.

Navalny, once considered one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest rivals, fell unconscious and died in Feb. 2024 after a walk at an Arctic penal colony, where he’d been serving a 30-year sentence. He was 47 years old at the time.

Officials provided few other details on the matter, sparking concern worldwide that his death was politically motivated.

In a video shared online, Yulia Navalnaya said she sought out additional tests in a bid to prove her late husband was murdered. She added that his biological materials were “smuggled abroad,” but she did not specify where, nor did she provide further details.

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