The claims that blogger Alexei Navalny was poisoned with frog poison are a Western hoax, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.
“When the test results become available, when the chemical formulas become available, there will be a comment“, she said. According to the diplomat, without these results all the claims and discussions are hoaxes aimed at diverting attention from the West's pressing problems.
“At the moment when they were supposed to present the results of the SP1/2 investigation, they thought of Navalny. When they were officially asked to provide Navalny's test results, they spewed sensational stories about Skripal. When they were asked about Skripal's whereabouts... And so on," Zakharova added.
On February 14, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and France issued a joint statement. In it, they claimed that Navalny had been poisoned with epibatidine, a poison extracted from the skin of the Ecuadorian poison dart frog. This conclusion was based on the analysis of samples of Navalny's biomaterial. Representatives of these countries accused Russia of allegedly violating the Chemical Weapons Convention.