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LazyCommunist
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Thu Dec 04 19:22:20
And there is nothing you can do!
He can order it again, any time, any place!


https://ww...alisbury-inquiry-b2878097.html

Vladimir Putin ordered Skripal novichok poisonings in show of ‘Russian power’, Dawn Sturgess inquiry finds

The foreign secretary warned Putin is ‘an active threat’ to Britain’s citizens in wake of report

Thursday 04 December 2025


Vladimir Putin ordered the “astonishingly reckless” attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal as a "public demonstration of Russian power", a major inquiry into the Salisbury novichok poisonings has concluded.

The inquiry laid the blame for the attack on the Russian president, saying he was "morally responsible" for the death of Dawn Sturgess, an innocent bystander who died after being exposed to the chemical weapon after it was left in a discarded perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018.

Her death came four months after the attempted murder of Mr Skripal, a former spy, his daughter Yulia and then-police officer Nick Bailey, who were all harmed when members of a Russian GRU military intelligence squad smeared the nerve agent on Mr Skripal’s door handle.

Retired Supreme Court judge Lord Hughes of Ombersley, who carried out the review into Ms Sturgess’ death, found the attempted assassination of Mr Skripal “must have been authorised at the highest level, by President Putin” and that the GRU agents were “acting on instructions” when they carried out the attack.



He said: “It is clear that this attack showed considerable determination and was expected to stand as a public demonstration of Russian power.”

After the report was released, foreign secretary Yvette Cooper warned that Putin and his agents are “an active threat to Britain’s citizens, our security and our prosperity.”

In a statement, she said: “We will not tolerate this brazen and despicable aggression on British soil. That is why we are exposing and sanctioning those carrying out malign acts for Moscow and ramping up efforts to crush hostile Russian hybrid activity.”

The GRU has now been sanctioned in its entirety by the UK government - measures which also hit 11 people linked to state-sponsored hostile activity, while the Russian ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office.

The report’s publication comes as hopes for a US-brokered peace deal in Ukraine fade, an illegal invasion which was launched four years after the novichok attacks.

Former prime minister Theresa May said the report shows Britain is under “constant threat from Russian espionage”, saying the government must “continue to stand firm in the face of Russian aggression.”
murder
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Thu Dec 04 23:44:16

It took them this long to determine that it was the Russians?

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Paramount
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Fri Dec 05 19:47:54
”Vladimir Putin ordered Skripal novichok poisonings in show of ‘Russian power’, Dawn Sturgess inquiry finds”


Lol. British humor.
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