US EditionPutin authorised 2018 Novichok poisoning of ex-Russian spy Skripal, UK inquiry says
The inquiry found Vladimir Putin authorised the 2018 Novichok attack that killed Dawn Sturgess and seriously injured others in a Kremlin operation, leading to UK sanctions on the GRU.
- On Thursday, Rt Hon Lord Hughes published the inquiry report concluding the 2018 Salisbury Novichok attack on Sergei Skripal must have been authorised at the highest level, by President Vladimir Putin, citing overwhelming evidence of Russian state involvement.
- The inquiry found the attack served as a public statement, for both international and domestic consumption, that Russia will act decisively in its own interests, and that GRU officers `acting on instructions` carried it out, with high-level approval necessary, as stated by Lord Hughes.
- A Nina Ricci perfume bottle containing Novichok was brought to Salisbury by Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, applied to Sergei Skripal's front-door handle, then discarded before they fled on March 4.
- The disposal of Novichok in public led to more than 87 people attending A&E, and Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after spraying a discarded bottle, prompting the UK government to sanction the GRU intelligence agency.
- Public hearings between October and December 2024 examined security failings and heard 40 witnesses, revealing that UK security services had insufficient written risk assessments for Sergei Skripal, former GRU colonel, while a closed section of the 174-page report was withheld for national security.
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Putin Ordered 2018 Novichok Poisoning Of Ex-Russian Spy: UK Inquiry
Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in a "reckless" display of power that led to the death of an innocent woman, a UK public inquiry concluded on Thursday.
«Putin morally responsible»: clear words from London for the 2018 poison attack on the Russian ex-double agent.
Putin ‘morally responsible’ Salisbury Novichok attack death
The UK has sanctioned Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, after an inquiry concluded that Vladimir Putin bears “moral responsibility” for the death of Dawn Sturgess. She was poisoned by Novichok, left in a discarded perfume bottle by the Russian agents who tried to kill former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter months earlier. The inquiry branded Russia’s president “astonishingly reckless” for deploying a nerve agent which could hav…
Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother, died in July 2018 in England, a few months after the attempted poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
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