US Does Not Question Navalny Poisoning Findings

British media point out that it is unclear how the poison was allegedly administered to Navalny. Rubio does not question the report. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated this Sunday that he has no reason to question the report prepared by five European countries, which concludes that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from poisoning with a lethal toxin obtained from a poisonous frog. Rubio stated that his country is aware of the report, which he described as very serious and very concerning. "We have no reason to question it, nor are we refuting it, and we are not going to get into a conflict with those countries over it, but it was their report and they published it," Rubio said at a press conference in Bratislava with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, broadcast by the State Department. Russia has always claimed that Navalny died of natural causes in prison in February 2024. However, given the toxicity of epibatidine and the reported symptoms, it is highly probable that poisoning was the cause of his death, the joint note adds. "It doesn't mean we don't agree with the result," the head of American diplomacy responded when asked why his country did not participate in that report, prepared by the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. "It simply was not our initiative," he explained about a report that found traces of the substance epibatidine in samples from the dissident, who died in a Russian prison in 2024. These countries emphasized that their respective governments reached this conclusion based on samples taken from Navalny, which have conclusively confirmed the presence of this substance called epibatidine. The dissident's wife, Yulia Navalnaya, appeared at a press conference on Saturday, parallel to the Security Conference taking place in Munich, to announce the finding. British media estimate that this poison is 200 times more potent than morphine. At that press conference, British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said that since Navalny's death, the United Kingdom has investigated "with iron determination" the truth about his death. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from poisoning with a lethal toxin found in South American poison dart frogs, reported in a joint statement by the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.