Mr Navalny<\/a>, 47, was killed while imprisoned in a Russian penal colony in 2024.<\/p>\n At the Munich Security Conference earlier this year, the UK, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands claimed he had been poisoned with a deadly toxin<\/a> found in the skin of Ecuadorian dart frogs.<\/p>\n They claimed the “barbaric” act – using a neurotoxin that is classed as a chemical weapon – could only have been carried out by Vladimir Putin’s government.<\/p>\n Image: Responding to the accusation, Mr Kelin said: “Do you think that we have got this frog in from South America, tell me please?”<\/p>\n He then claimed there are “six places” in London where a synthetic version of the toxin can be bought.<\/p>\n Also speaking on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said that Mr Kelin was wrong.<\/p>\n Russia had both the “means and the motive” to kill Mr Navalny, she claimed<\/p>\n Ms Cooper added that “clear evidence” pointed to Russian involvement – hence why the UK, along with other nations, pointed to Moscow being to blame for Mr Navalny’s death.<\/p>\n Sky News understands it is likely the toxin that killed him was manufactured in a laboratory rather than actually taken from a dart frog.<\/p>\n It is not clear how the frog poison – called epibatidine – was allegedly administered to Mr Navalny, who had been in a penal colony in Siberia when he died almost exactly two years ago.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n \n How could Navalny have been killed by toxin of poisonous frog?\n <\/p>\n Read more: Indigenous tribes in South America are said to use the toxin in blow darts or blowguns when they hunt.<\/p>\n The poison – described as “one of the deadliest on earth” – is 200 times stronger than morphine. It causes paralysis, breathing difficulties and death.<\/p>\n Speaking to Trevor Philips, Mr Kelin also claimed Russia was on the side of Tehran in its war against the US and Israel.<\/p>\n He said: “We are not neutral. No way neutral. We are supportive to Iran, of course. And we consider, as I have said, very negatively what is being done.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia’s ambassador to Britain has denied that poison from a dart frog was used to kill opposition leader…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-464272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ambassador](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-russia-uk-kelin_7185967.jpg\")
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\n Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom Andrei Kelin. Pic: Reuters<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-navalny-frog_7165028.jpg\")
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The science behind Russia’s frog poison<\/a>
Why Navalny announcement was deliberately timed<\/a><\/p>\n