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  1. Russia officially ended its chemical weapons programme in 2017 and destroyed its inventory. But few believe it has really ended.

    Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert and adviser, said this claim “was a complete lie”.

    Recent revelations that [Alexei Navalny](https://inews.co.uk/topic/alexei-navalny?ico=in-line_link), a vocal Kremlin critic, was killed with a lethal dart frog poison have drawn fresh attention to institutes previously linked to Russia’s biological weapons.

    The toxin, epibatidine, kills its victims by overstimulating receptors in the nervous system, causing muscle twitching, paralysis, seizures, slow heart rate and respiratory failure, resulting in death by suffocation.

    Another side effect is vomiting, which Navalny appeared to suffer from. Pictures of his cell shared on social media appear to [show a pool of vomit](https://news.sky.com/story/the-science-behind-the-frog-poison-that-allegedly-killed-alexei-navalny-13507513) on the floor.

    John Foreman, a former British defence attaché to both Moscow and Kyiv, said: “His last moments must have been excruciating and his fate sends a message to anyone brave enough to not cross the system.”

    [The UK and other countries](https://inews.co.uk/news/new-deadly-russian-poisons-uk-alert-attacks-4237897?ico=in-line_link) said that “only the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to deploy this lethal toxin” against the opposition leader, who died in an Arctic prison camp.

    “We’ve always suspected that they have an extant chemical warfare programme, and this is yet another realisation that it is, because extracting this biological toxin from the Ecuadorian mountain frog is not a insignificant process,” de Bretton-Gordon told *The i Paper*.

    He added: “You need a pretty sophisticated laboratory with experts to do it, and with Novichok as well, you need a very sophisticated programme designed so that we in Nato couldn’t identify it or track it down.”

  2. SammySizzler on

    As an Englishman I’m worried putin will be spiteful enough to release his chemicals on us

  3. Probably similarly to how they have produced those for at least 100 years. After 1922 Treaty of Rapallo soviets helped warthirsty Germans secretly build up their military in soviet union and among facilities were chemical weapons factories and Tomka gas test site that helped teach nazis about gassing unwanted people. Those russian speaking nazis were ahead of german speaking nazis on chemical weapons even back then and unlike their German counterparts they were left to do what they wanted with many undesirables to test with.

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