EU imposes sanctions on Russian officials over poisoning of opposition leader
The decision was agreed upon among the 27 EU envoys to Brussels.
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The decision was agreed upon among the 27 EU envoys to Brussels.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons carried out its own analysis of samples taken from the Russian opposition figure.
Alexei Navalny last month became the latest in a long line of Russian defectors to be poisoned in suspicious circumstances.
The attempted assassination the Skripals was done using Novichok in March 2018.
The final site of decontamination in Salisbury, the Skripal home, is safe following extensive cleaning.
Dawn Sturgess died after coming into contact with a nerve agent allegedly used in last year’s poisoning of Skripal and his daughter.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found poisoned in the English city of Salisbury in early March.
The Russian President was visibly angry when he was speaking about Skripal today in Moscow.
British investigative team Bellingcat claims to have discovered that ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ is in fact FRU colonel Anatoly Chepiga.
The two men accused denied having anything to do with the murder attempt in an interview with Russian media.
Putin said the two men do not work for the military and called on them to come forward.
British authorities have issued arrest warrants for two suspected members of Russian military intelligence.
British Security Minister Ben Wallace said the attack in Salisbury was “more Johnny English than James Bond”.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found poisoned in the English city of Salisbury in early March.
A former Russian spy and his daughter were exposed to Novichok in March.
Dawn Sturgess died after she handled what she thought was a bottle of perfume, given to her by her partner Charlie Rowley.
Dawn Sturgess was exposed to Novichok in England.
The suspects are believed to be Russian.
They say that 400 items in total have been collected.
44-year-old Dawn Sturgess died last Sunday after being hospitalised following contact with the lethal nerve agent Novichok.
Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, who has since died, fell ill last weekend in Amesbury, near the town of Salisbury.
The man’s partner Dawn Sturgess, 44, died on Sunday.
Dawn Sturgess and a man named locally as Charlie Rowley (45) fell ill last weekend in Amesbury, near the town of Salisbury.
Police are investigating if the latest nerve agent poisoning is linked to the last Salisbury incident.
Skripal was discharged from hospital on Monday, more than a month after the 4 March nerve agent attack.
Analysts had identified it as military-grade Novichok, but they had not proved it was made in Russia.
The agent is an ultra-fine powder, made up of several components that would have been mixed safely by the assassin.
The nerve agent Novichok is believed to have been used.