Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Europe marks an anniversary defined by trench warfare, drone strikes and geopolitical stalemate.
But while the world focuses on the battlefield, another front may have been operating in plain sight.
In this episode of Max Marten Chats, we examine explosive claims by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine, a rare toxin derived from South American poison dart frogs, before his death in an Arctic penal colony in February 2024.
If confirmed, this would not be an isolated incident. It would sit alongside:
We ask the uncomfortable question:
Is Russia fighting only a territorial war in Ukraine — or prosecuting a broader, layered campaign that includes demonstrative poisonings, chemical signalling, and global deterrence?
This episode explores:
This is not conspiracy.
This is pattern recognition.
As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, the question is no longer whether the world knows.
The question is whether knowing is enough.
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