Sergei Skripal
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In March 2018, former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious in Salisbury, England. They had been poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-developed nerve agent. British authorities accused the Russian government of attempted murder, leading to an international incident. Skripal had previously served as a double agent for the United Kingdom. The poisoning prompted the expulsion of Russian intelligence officers from the UK and other Western countries. Tragically, Dawn Sturgess, a local woman, later died after being exposed to the same nerve agent from a discarded perfume bottle.12
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GRURole in modern-day Russia…attack on former Russian detainee Sergei Skripal in the U.K. that led to a woman’s death. Subsequently, the Netherlands government caught GRU spies trying to hack into the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
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Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal…March 2018 former Russian spy Sergei Skripal went out to lunch with his daughter Yulia, who had come to England from Moscow to visit her father. Shortly thereafter the pair was found unconscious on a park bench. They had both been poisoned with the Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok; Sergei Skripal,…
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