Apr 17 UK: Nerve agent that poisoned spy was in liquid form By Associated Press LONDON — The nerve agent used on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was delivered in liquid form, British officials said Tuesday, as they revealed it will take months to clean up the toxic trail the poison… Continue reading
Apr 11 Russian TV crew escorted from UK hospital treating poisoned spy Sergei Skripal By Jill Lawless, Associated Press Footage posted online by British newspapers showed a reporter from the REN TV network walking along corridors at Salisbury District Hospital early Wednesday and commenting on the apparent lack of security. Continue reading
Apr 10 Ex-spy’s daughter poisoned in nerve agent attack released from British hospital By Gregory Katz, Associated Press Yulia Skripal, who was targeted along with her father in a nerve agent attack in England, has been discharged from the hospital, a British health official said Tuesday. Sergei Skripal, the apparent target of the attack, is recovering more slowly… Continue reading
Apr 06 Poisoned ex-spy recovering, no longer in critical condition By Jill Lawless and Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press Ex-spy Sergei Skripal is improving rapidly and is no longer in critical condition, a British health official said Friday, a month after he and his daughter were poisoned with a rare nerve agent that triggered a diplomatic crisis between Russia… Continue reading
Apr 05 Daughter of poisoned spy says she’s recovering By Danica Kirka, Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press LONDON — The poisoned daughter of an ex-Russian spy said Thursday she's recovering quickly after her ordeal, while Russia strongly protested being locked out of the probe into the nerve agent that sickened her and her father. Continue reading
Apr 03 Putin calls for probe into spy poisoning, saying scientists have failed to identify source of nerve agent By Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow wants a thorough probe into the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain and will demand to be part of it. Continue reading
Mar 30 Watch 5:10 Feud with the West bolsters Putin’s image, as tragic Siberian fire shows limits of his control By PBS News Hour American diplomats packed up at the U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg on Friday, another escalation in the current diplomatic crisis making Russia-U.S. relations more cloudy and dangerous than any point since the Cold War. But while international tensions may strengthen… Continue watching
Mar 15 U.S., France, Germany, UK blame Russia in joint statement for attack on ex-spy By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press The statement is the fruit of British efforts to enlist international support as it tries to hold Russia accountable for the March 4 attack that left former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal seriously ill. Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch 8:54 Expelling diplomats over ex-spy attack will do ‘catastrophic damage’ to Russia in UK, says ambassador By PBS News Hour British Prime Minister Theresa May leveled her diplomatic fire at Moscow on Wednesday in retribution for the apparent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter. Libby Wiener of Independent Television News reports and UK Ambassador to the U.S. Continue watching
Mar 13 Russia dismisses poisoning accusations by Britain as ‘nonsense’ By Gregory Katz and Nataliya Vasilyeva, Associated Press Russia on Tuesday dismissed accusations of any involvement in the poisoning of an ex-spy as "nonsense," saying it will only cooperate with a British investigation if it receives samples of the nerve agent believed to have been used. Continue reading