British officials, particularly those in the town of Salisbury, are appalled by the release of a Russian board game that mocks the attempt to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Novichok nerve agent last year.
The head of the MI6 foreign spy agency warned Russia on Monday not to underestimate Britain’s capabilities and determination to expose malign behaviour, ahead of a rare public speech.
LONDON (AP) — One of the two suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in England is a medical doctor in Russian military intelligence who was honored as a Hero of the Russian Federation by President Vladimir Putin in 2014, a group of British investigators said Tuesday.
An investigative group in Britain says it has identified one of the two suspects in the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in the U.K. as a highly-decorated colonel in the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.
Police closed roads and called a hazardous response team Sunday night after two people became ill at a restaurant in the English city where a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with a chemical nerve agent.
The two Russian men charged in Britain with poisoning a former Russian spy with a deadly nerve agent appeared on Russian television on Thursday, saying they visited the suspected crime scene as tourists.
British prosecutors have charged in absentia two Russian citizens of conspiracy to murder over the alleged poisoning in Salisbury, Wiltshire in March.
A perfume bottle filled with a deadly nerve agent has been claimed at the mystery item which was used in the Salisbury attack and later killed a presumably unintended victim in the small British city earlier this month.
AP — British police say they believe the latest victims of poisoning by nerve agent Novichok must have handled the material’s container. Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said Monday the death of Dawn Sturgess the day before shows that she and
British police have confirmed the couple identified locally as Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley who were taken ill on Saturday were poisoned with the Cold-War era, Soviet-produced Novichok nerve agent.
Wiltshire Police declared a major incident in the early hours of Tuesday morning after two people collapsed in Amesbury following exposure to an “unknown substance”, triggering an investigation.
The British foreign secretary has been duped into speaking to two Russian pranksters on the phone for 18 minutes, discussing sensitive security matters such as the nerve agent attack in Salisbury.
The controversy surrounding the poisoning of a former Russian double agent in Salisbury, England intensified Wednesday after Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office deleted tweet accusing Russia of having produced the nerve agent used in the attack. Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth
