Yulia Navalnaya reveals Alexei Navalny was poisoned, test results confirm

Published September 17th, 2025 - 09:38 GMT
Alexei Navalny
Yulia Navalnaya (X/ Twitter)/ A mourner lays flowers at a makeshift memorial for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, marking the first anniversary of his death while incarcerated in a remote Arctic penal colony, in front of the Russian embassy in Prague, on February 16, 2025. (Photo by Michal Cizek / AFP)

ALBAWABA - Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the late Russian lawyer and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, took to X (formerly known as Twitter) and claimed that her husband was poisoned to death, according to two foreign laboratory tests. 

Navalnaya wrote in the video's caption, "We managed to transfer Alexei’s biological materials abroad. Laboratories in two different countries conducted examinations." She added, "These laboratories, independently of each other, concluded that Alexei was poisoned. These results are of public importance and must be published. We all deserve to know the truth."

Yulia Navalnaya reveals Alexei Navalny was poisoned, test results confirm

She outlined during the video how her husband, Alexei Navalny, was sent to a closed space in the Arctic for two months before his death, with photos of the room as evidence. She claimed that over the years he served in prison, he was subjected to a cold and isolated environment on purpose. 

While Navalnaya didn't disclose which foreign countries were involved in the tests, she claimed that they were "smuggled abroad."

Navalnaya also urged the foreign laboratories to conduct the analyses and publish their results. Moreover, she accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of her husband's death and called for viewers to "stop appeasing Putin for some higher ‘considerations.’"

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