Yulia Navalnaya , widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny , has publicly claimed that her husband was poisoned while serving his prison sentence, citing laboratory analyses carried out in two separate Western countries. Speaking in a recorded statement, Navalnaya said biological samples taken from Navalny in February 2024 had been smuggled abroad and subjected to independent tests. Both laboratories, she emphasized, reached the same conclusion: Navalny had been poisoned once