Putin opponent ‘poisoned to death’ as wife shares first images of hellish ‘Arctic’ cell

Yulia Navalny, the widow of Russian politician Alexei, has claimed that two laboratories have evidence that he really was poisoned.

Alexei Navalny was a Russian lawyer and opponent of Vladimir Putin who died in prison last year, having been arrested upon his return to Russia in 2021. During his incarceration, he claimed he had been tortured through deprivation of sleep and was suffering from health problems.

Amnesty International accused Putin of slowly killing Navalny through inhumane treatment in prison, and while behind bars, he was hit with further charges, which meant he would stay in prison for years.

In 2023, he was moved from the penal colony he'd been kept in to a 'special regime' prison known as Polar Wolf where prisoners are kept in freezing conditions.

On 16 February, 2024, it was announced that Navalny had died in prison after feeling unwell, and accusations of foul play were quickly levelled at the Putin regime.

Now, Navalny's widow has released a new statement on social media claiming that two independent laboratories have confirmed his death was due to poison.

The official version of events from the Kremlin is that he wasn't murdered but instead died from 'a combination of diseases', though on the subject of political opponents dying, one ought to trust them as far as one is able to throw the building, which is to say not at all.

Yulia Navalny said: "The killers worked carefully to erase traces, but we managed to preserve some evidence.

"We were able to obtain samples of Alexey’s biological material and securely smuggle them abroad.

We managed to transfer Alexei’s biological materials abroad. Laboratories in two different countries conducted examinations. These laboratories, independently of each other, concluded that Alexei was poisoned. These results are of public importance and must be published. We all… pic.twitter.com/Sp8w1322gY

— Yulia Navalnaya (@yulia_navalnaya) September 17, 2025

"Labs in at least two countries examined these samples independently of each other. And these labs… reached the same conclusion: Alexei was killed, more specifically, he was poisoned."

She said Western countries were keeping quiet about it due to 'political' considerations and claimed her husband's death was an 'inconvenient truth' which they didn't want 'to come out at the wrong moment'.

Navalny's widow also called on the labs to 'stop pandering to Putin on account of so-called higher considerations' and release the test results that she said would prove her husband had been killed by poison.

Her video also shared a look inside the prison cell she claimed her husband had been kept in, along with the small area he was allowed to exercise in.

This is a punishment cell in the prison in Kharp, where Alexei Navalny was dying. The photos were taken right after his body was carried out. He had been lying here on the floor, vomiting, screaming in pain. The prison guards, instead of saving him, left him here, locked the bars… pic.twitter.com/8OCUNw17hp

— Maria Pevchikh (@pevchikh) September 17, 2025

She said her husband was kept in a 'punishment cell' and that on the day he died, he told guards he was feeling unwell and they took him back to his cell rather than to a doctor.

Yulia described how her husband 'lay on the floor, pulled his knees up to his stomach and moaned in pain' before he started vomiting.

According to The Times, Russian documents leaked last year showed Navalny had been suffering from symptoms consistent with being poisoned in the time before his death, and appeared to show that his cause of death had been covered up.