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Post by Admin on Apr 20, 2018 18:01:36 GMT
Sir Mark's letter to Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is the first time the UK government has claimed to have specific information that the Russians were interested in the Skripal family. "We have information indicating Russian intelligence service interest in the Skripals dating back at least as far as 2013," he said. "Email accounts belonging to Yulia Skripal were targeted by GRU cyber specialists," he said, referring to Russia's foreign military intelligence agency. The letter accuses Russia of testing assassination methods with chemical weapons, including using nerve agents smeared on to door handles.
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Post by Admin on May 24, 2018 18:11:50 GMT
“We are so lucky to have both survived this attempted assassination. Our recovery has been slow and extremely painful,” she said in her written English statement. “The fact that a nerve agent was used to do this is shocking,” Skripal told Reuters in an exclusive statement. “My life has been turned upside down.” Yulia and her father Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service, were found unconscious on a public bench in the British city of Salisbury on March 4.
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Post by Admin on May 29, 2018 18:10:23 GMT
“I woke to the news that we had both been poisoned,” Skripal said in her first media appearance since the poisoning. She contacted Reuters through the British police. Skripal was speaking from a secret location in London as she is under the protection of the British state. She was discharged from Salisbury District Hospital about five weeks after the poisoning and has not been seen by the media until now.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2018 18:05:52 GMT
British police declared a “major incident” early Wednesday after two people were left critically ill following their suspected exposure to an “unknown substance" just a few miles from the scene of a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter. Emergency services were twice called to a property in Amesbury, England on Saturday where a man, 45, and a woman, 44, were found unconscious. Mr Rowley and Ms Sturgess are believed to have attended a family fun day at Amesbury Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon before they were found unconscious in the property they had just moved into.
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Post by Admin on Jul 7, 2018 18:02:45 GMT
British police say two more people have been poisoned by the same type of nerve agent used to attack a Russian former spy and his daughter.
The new victims were found in Amesbury, England, just a few miles from the scene of the alleged assassination attempt in March, and officials now believe they are likely secondary, unintended victims of that attack.
CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata is at the hospital in Salisbury, England, where the pair are being treated. British media have identified them as Charlie Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 44.
Paramedics in hazmat suits stretchered them out of an apartment in Amesbury, about eight miles from Salisbury, on Saturday evening.
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