"The 33-month, $11-million inquiry, chaired by a former Supreme Court justice, detailed a plot that was as hapless as it was deadly: Two Russian operatives transported a vial of the banned nerve agent Novichok to Salisbury in a fake perfume bottle intending to kill former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. Skripal and his adult daughter, Yulia, were left critically ill after touching their front doorknob, which was dabbed with the poison."
"They survived, but months later the discarded perfume container was found by a local man and given to his partner, Dawn Sturgess, 44, a mother of three. Sturgess sprayed it on her wrist and died eight days later. Following public and classified fact-finding sessions, the final report released Thursday concluded that the operation was authorized at the highest level of the Russian state and dubbed Putin "morally responsible" for Sturgess's death and the deployment of the military-grade chemical weapon on British soil."
""Deploying a highly toxic nerve agent in a busy city was an astonishingly reckless act," said Lord Anthony Hughes, the commission head."
A 33-month, $11-million inquiry chaired by a former Supreme Court justice found that Russian operatives used the banned nerve agent Novichok in a failed assassination attempt in Salisbury in 2018. Two operatives transported the agent in a fake perfume bottle intended to kill former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were critically ill after touching a poisoned doorknob and later survived. A discarded container reached Dawn Sturgess, who sprayed it and died eight days later. The operation was authorized at the highest level of the Russian state, and the U.K. responded with condemnation and new sanctions on Russian military intelligence.
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