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Andrey Lugovoy
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Andrey Lugovoy

Russian government agent
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Andrey Lugovoy is identified as a Russian intelligence agent involved in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian security agent. Litvinenko died in London in 2006 after being poisoned with polonium-210. Investigations by British authorities and the European Court of Human Rights concluded that Lugovoy and another Russian agent, Dmitry Kovtun, administered the poison, acting on behalf of Russian state agents. The FSB operation to kill Litvinenko was likely approved by high-ranking Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin. This incident is distinct from the 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, where a different nerve agent, Novichok, was used.12

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