On February 12, 2018, on the day of the 59th birthday of former KGB agent Boris Karpichkov, an unexpected call rang at his home in the UK. It was a friend of his from the Russian secret service who was calling secretly from somewhere in continental Europe to warn him that there was a list of eight people who should ...
Bombs filled with chemical weapons do not have a selective effect and can hit both military personnel and civilians in hundreds and thousands. When individuals are targeted, the killers may use nerve agents such as sarin, VX or Novichok, a Russian-made nerve agent ...
The daughter of ex-GRU colonel Yulia Skripal, poisoned in Britain, regained consciousness and is talking, according to the BBC, citing sources. Sources said that at Salisbury Hospital, the condition of Sergei Skripal's daughter Yulia is improving rapidly and is no longer assessed as critical. Her father, also poisoned by a nerve ...
US Ambassador to Russia John Huntsman explained why the US responded so harshly to the poisoning in London of ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal. In an interview with Kommersant on March 26, Huntsman stated: “This is a response to a very reckless attack using a military-grade nerve agent against ...
NATO countries and partners are expelling more than 100 Russian diplomats due to the Skripal case. The exact number of Russian diplomats who will be expelled has not been announced, but according to some media reports, we are talking about 129 diplomats from 16 European countries, as well as from the United States. In white…
President Donald Trump may approve the decision to expel several dozen Russian diplomats from the United States in response to the assassination attempt in the UK on former GRU officer Sergei Skripal. According to Bloomberg, citing its own sources in the administration, with such a recommendation in ...
The US National Security Council has devised a range of options in case President Donald Trump decides to take action against Russia after the poisoning of former Russian intelligence defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK. It is reported by CNN with reference to sources in ...
After the mysterious poisoning, a lot is known about the life of the Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal in Britain, but there is almost no information about how his children lived in Russia. Journalists of the "Moskovsky Komsomolets" publication visited two houses in Moscow where the Skripal family lived, found out ...
British military intelligence (MI5) suggests that the Russian assassins used an assassination gadget to poison the defector, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The scouts admit that the victims could have been sprayed with nerve agent from a remotely controlled drone located above them ...
UK police have released a chronology of the movements of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia before they were found unconscious on a bench in a shopping center in Salisbury, The Guardian writes. The police released a photograph of a burgundy BMW with registration...