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What happened to Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March 2018?

Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok and found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury, England, in March 2018. Sergei Skripal is a former Russian spy and alleged double agent for the United Kingdom. Yulia Skripal is his daughter who visited him in England from Moscow. Both survived, but the poisonings became an international incident.