"The death of British woman Dawn Sturgess in 2018 after coming into contact with a nerve agent used to try to assassinate a former Soviet agent was the responsibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a British government report has found. The March 2018 attack in the southwestern city of Salisbury targeted Sergei Skripal, who had defected to Britain. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were left critically ill from the attack. Four months later, Sturgess came into contact with the Novichok nerve agent, dying as a result."
""The conduct of Petrov and Boshirov, their GRU superiors, and those who authorized the mission up to and including, as I have found, President Putin, was astonishingly reckless," Hughes said. "They, and only they, bear moral responsibility for Dawn's death.""
A British inquiry concluded that Vladimir Putin authorized the March 2018 Novichok attack in Salisbury that targeted former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and left Skripal and his daughter Yulia critically ill. Operatives Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, identified as GRU agents, are believed to have placed a perfume bottle containing Novichok in Salisbury. Four months later Dawn Sturgess encountered the discarded nerve agent, sprayed it on herself believing it to be perfume, and died. The inquiry described the operation as astonishingly reckless, placed moral responsibility on those who authorized and executed the mission, and led to UK sanctions and diplomatic measures.
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