UK - Sergei, 66, & Yulia Skripal, 33, poisoned, Salisbury, 4 March 2018
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It makes you wonder if people in Russia believe this nonsense.
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Restaurant in Salisbury is sealed off after man and woman fall ill
Restaurant in Salisbury is sealed off after man and woman fall ill | Daily Mail Online
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Police seal off Salisbury restaurant over 'medical incident' Police seal off Salisbury restaurant
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Emergency services deal with 'medical incident' in Salisbury
"The patients were conscious at the last update and are being treated at the scene, she added.
A cordon is in place on the high street with customers inside the Old Ale House pub told they cannot leave, according to the Salisbury Journal.
Witness Sam Proudfoot, 16, said he saw a person in a hazardous material suit go between the restaurant and the ambulance.
"I've been told two people were taken ill in there," he said.
"There's a man in a full white body suit with a mask to his mouth going in and out of the back of the ambulance and the restaurant."
"The Italian restaurant is a short walk from Queen Elizabeth Gardens, which was until recently closed off after 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned by the nerve agent."
"The patients were conscious at the last update and are being treated at the scene, she added.
A cordon is in place on the high street with customers inside the Old Ale House pub told they cannot leave, according to the Salisbury Journal.
Witness Sam Proudfoot, 16, said he saw a person in a hazardous material suit go between the restaurant and the ambulance.
"I've been told two people were taken ill in there," he said.
"There's a man in a full white body suit with a mask to his mouth going in and out of the back of the ambulance and the restaurant."
"The Italian restaurant is a short walk from Queen Elizabeth Gardens, which was until recently closed off after 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned by the nerve agent."
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'Russian couple suffer novichok symptoms like the Skripals'
Restaurant in Salisbury sealed off after 'Russian' couple suffer novichok symptoms | Daily Mail Online
This headline is misleading as the article confirms Novichok has been ruled out.
Restaurant in Salisbury sealed off after 'Russian' couple suffer novichok symptoms | Daily Mail Online
This headline is misleading as the article confirms Novichok has been ruled out.
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An investigative journalism website has published what it says is the real identity of one of the Russian intelligence officers suspected of the Salisbury nerve agent poisoning.
The Bellingcat group claims the man who was named as Ruslan Boshirov is actually Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.
Skripal suspect 'real identity revealed'
A third suspect in the Novichok attack in Salisbury has been identified, it has been reported.
A Russian military intelligence who the officer is believed to have carried out a reconnaissance mission before the poisoning of Sergei Skripal has been unmasked by investigators.
The third suspect has been identified by counter-terrorism police and the security services, according to the Telegraph.
The male GRU agent is believed to have visited Salisbury to help plan the attack before two of his colleagues brought a weapons-grade nerve agent into the UK.
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Tonight the Mirror exclusively reveals that MI5 and British police could head up an investigation into any previous assassinations that can be linked to Chepiga and his accomplice Alexander Petrov.
Third suspect in Salisbury Novichok attack 'identified by security services'
A Russian military intelligence who the officer is believed to have carried out a reconnaissance mission before the poisoning of Sergei Skripal has been unmasked by investigators.
The third suspect has been identified by counter-terrorism police and the security services, according to the Telegraph.
The male GRU agent is believed to have visited Salisbury to help plan the attack before two of his colleagues brought a weapons-grade nerve agent into the UK.
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Tonight the Mirror exclusively reveals that MI5 and British police could head up an investigation into any previous assassinations that can be linked to Chepiga and his accomplice Alexander Petrov.
Third suspect in Salisbury Novichok attack 'identified by security services'
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Russia accused of targeting UN chemical weapons watchdog
"The Dutch and British blamed Russia's GRU for “brazen” activities across the globe and for trying to cover up Russia's alleged participation in the nerve agent poisoning in March of Skripal and his daughter, and the downing of MH17 over Ukraine that killing all 298 people on board during a period of intense fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia rebels. Russia has consistently denied involvement in the events.
Britain's ambassador to the Netherlands, Peter Wilson, said the GRU would no longer be allowed to act with impunity. Britain blames the secretive military intelligence unit for the nerve agent attack in March on former Russian spy Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the English city of Salisbury.
He said Russia's actions against the Netherlands-based OPCW came as the agency was conducting an independent analysis of the nerve agent used against the Skripals. Britain says the nerve agent was Novichok, produced in the Soviet Union, a finding later confirmed by the chemical weapons watchdog.
Earlier, British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson branded a series of global cyberattacks blamed on Russia as the reckless actions of a “pariah state,” saying that the U.K. and its NATO allies would uncover such activities in the future.
“Where Russia acts in an indiscriminate and reckless way, where they have done in terms of these cyberattacks, we will be exposing them,” Williamson told reporters in Brussels at talks with U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and their NATO counterparts.
Britain's National Cyber Security Center said Thursday that four new attacks are associated with the GRU as well as earlier security hacks."
Russia accused of targeting UN chemical weapons watchdog
"The Dutch and British blamed Russia's GRU for “brazen” activities across the globe and for trying to cover up Russia's alleged participation in the nerve agent poisoning in March of Skripal and his daughter, and the downing of MH17 over Ukraine that killing all 298 people on board during a period of intense fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia rebels. Russia has consistently denied involvement in the events.
Britain's ambassador to the Netherlands, Peter Wilson, said the GRU would no longer be allowed to act with impunity. Britain blames the secretive military intelligence unit for the nerve agent attack in March on former Russian spy Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in the English city of Salisbury.
He said Russia's actions against the Netherlands-based OPCW came as the agency was conducting an independent analysis of the nerve agent used against the Skripals. Britain says the nerve agent was Novichok, produced in the Soviet Union, a finding later confirmed by the chemical weapons watchdog.
Earlier, British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson branded a series of global cyberattacks blamed on Russia as the reckless actions of a “pariah state,” saying that the U.K. and its NATO allies would uncover such activities in the future.
“Where Russia acts in an indiscriminate and reckless way, where they have done in terms of these cyberattacks, we will be exposing them,” Williamson told reporters in Brussels at talks with U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and their NATO counterparts.
Britain's National Cyber Security Center said Thursday that four new attacks are associated with the GRU as well as earlier security hacks."
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"The grandmother of the military doctor outed as a Salisbury assassin has disappeared after disclosing her grandson had been awarded Russia’s highest honour by Vladimir Putin.
The grandmother of Alexander Mishkin, whose identity was first disclosed by the Telegraph, vanished three days ago following reports that his real name was about to be revealed.
Mishkin, 39, a senior member of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, was given the Hero of the Russian Federation by Mr Putin at a ceremony in autumn 2014.
Nina Mishkina, now in her 90s, proudly showed to friends a photograph of her grandson shaking hands with the Russian president at the event.
Mishkin had travelled to the UK under the assumed name Alexander Petrov with another Russian agent Anatoliy Chepiga, who came on the false identity of Ruslan Boshirov."
"In Loyga, the remote village where Mishkin grew up, neighbours said his grandmother, a trained doctor, had disappeared three days ago, after Bellingcat, an investigative website working with Russia’s The Insider, announced it was about to reveal her grandson’s identity."
The grandmother of Alexander Mishkin, whose identity was first disclosed by the Telegraph, vanished three days ago following reports that his real name was about to be revealed.
Mishkin, 39, a senior member of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, was given the Hero of the Russian Federation by Mr Putin at a ceremony in autumn 2014.
Nina Mishkina, now in her 90s, proudly showed to friends a photograph of her grandson shaking hands with the Russian president at the event.
Mishkin had travelled to the UK under the assumed name Alexander Petrov with another Russian agent Anatoliy Chepiga, who came on the false identity of Ruslan Boshirov."
"In Loyga, the remote village where Mishkin grew up, neighbours said his grandmother, a trained doctor, had disappeared three days ago, after Bellingcat, an investigative website working with Russia’s The Insider, announced it was about to reveal her grandson’s identity."
Bellingcat -- the crowdsourced investigative website that helped break the Skripal ID story -- has a full report on their scoop, with detailed explanation of their methods and process that is likely to strike a chord with many here:
Full report: Skripal Poisoning Suspect Dr. Alexander Mishkin, Hero of Russia - bellingcat
Full report: Skripal Poisoning Suspect Dr. Alexander Mishkin, Hero of Russia - bellingcat
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Police officer's family 'lost everything' because of Novichok attack
"The police officer who was poisoned in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter has revealed how his family lost their home and all their possessions after he was contaminated with Novichok.
"Novichok had been sprayed on the door handle of the Skripals' home.
He added: "I don't know whether, if it's gone through the gloves, I don't know whether, I mean, I could have adjusted my face mask and my goggles whilst I was in the house with it being on my hand.
"It's such an outrageous, dangerous way of doing something that it angered me as well because any number of people could have been affected by that."
"When asked how many people it could have killed, he said: "It's difficult to say, you know, possibly into the thousands. The amount that was in the bottle and the way it was applied to the Skripals' home address was completely reckless."
Police officer's family 'lost everything' because of Novichok attack
"The police officer who was poisoned in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter has revealed how his family lost their home and all their possessions after he was contaminated with Novichok.
"Novichok had been sprayed on the door handle of the Skripals' home.
He added: "I don't know whether, if it's gone through the gloves, I don't know whether, I mean, I could have adjusted my face mask and my goggles whilst I was in the house with it being on my hand.
"It's such an outrageous, dangerous way of doing something that it angered me as well because any number of people could have been affected by that."
"When asked how many people it could have killed, he said: "It's difficult to say, you know, possibly into the thousands. The amount that was in the bottle and the way it was applied to the Skripals' home address was completely reckless."
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Sorry, 2 posts in a row but just noticed this bit of news..
Chief of Russian spy agency blamed for novichok attack dies
"The head of the Russian military intelligence agency the GRU, which has been blamed for the Salisbury nerve agent attack, has died, the Kremlin has announced.
Colonel General Igor Korobov’s death was announced by the country’s defence ministry on Wednesday night, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
It comes after the GRU chief, 63, was reported to be in sudden “ill health” after a confrontation with Vladimir Putin in October over the Salisbury poisoning.
Korobov was head of the GRU, two officers of which are accused of travelling to the UK and attempting to assassinate Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in the agency."
Chief of Russian spy agency blamed for novichok attack dies
"The head of the Russian military intelligence agency the GRU, which has been blamed for the Salisbury nerve agent attack, has died, the Kremlin has announced.
Colonel General Igor Korobov’s death was announced by the country’s defence ministry on Wednesday night, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
It comes after the GRU chief, 63, was reported to be in sudden “ill health” after a confrontation with Vladimir Putin in October over the Salisbury poisoning.
Korobov was head of the GRU, two officers of which are accused of travelling to the UK and attempting to assassinate Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in the agency."
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PC Alex Collins said they reached the scene in two minutes after driving through the pedestrianised area of the city centre with blue lights flashing and sirens blaring.
‘The female was on the floor on her side,’ he said. ‘There was a member of the public, who turned out to be a doctor, helping her, maintaining her airway. I believe if that doctor hadn’t done that, she would have died.’
The female doctor is believed to have placed Miss Skripal in the recovery position after discovering her ‘vomiting and fitting’ on the bench, and tended to her for almost 30 minutes.
PC Collins went on: ‘The male was in a very unusual position. He was sat on the bench, rigid, catatonic, staring into space. He was breathing but totally unresponsive.
‘We tried to help medically and to find out what had happened. Our first thought was that it was drugs.’
But they soon realised that the couple were not locally known addicts, were well dressed, and had a phone with Russian writing on.
‘It didn’t feel right. It wasn’t quite normal,’ said PC Collins.
Yulia Skripal owes her life to a passing doctor, say first police on the scene | Daily Mail Online
‘The female was on the floor on her side,’ he said. ‘There was a member of the public, who turned out to be a doctor, helping her, maintaining her airway. I believe if that doctor hadn’t done that, she would have died.’
The female doctor is believed to have placed Miss Skripal in the recovery position after discovering her ‘vomiting and fitting’ on the bench, and tended to her for almost 30 minutes.
PC Collins went on: ‘The male was in a very unusual position. He was sat on the bench, rigid, catatonic, staring into space. He was breathing but totally unresponsive.
‘We tried to help medically and to find out what had happened. Our first thought was that it was drugs.’
But they soon realised that the couple were not locally known addicts, were well dressed, and had a phone with Russian writing on.
‘It didn’t feel right. It wasn’t quite normal,’ said PC Collins.
Yulia Skripal owes her life to a passing doctor, say first police on the scene | Daily Mail Online
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The home of a former Russian spy is to be dismantled, with the roof completely removed by military teams in the wake of the novichok attack as decontamination work continues.
Wiltshire council have written to neighbours of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, warning them about the disruption that the deep clean and construction work – expected to take up to four months – will cause.
Sergei Skripal's house to be dismantled after novichok attack
Wiltshire council have written to neighbours of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, warning them about the disruption that the deep clean and construction work – expected to take up to four months – will cause.
Sergei Skripal's house to be dismantled after novichok attack
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A teenage girl was the first person to help Novichok poisoning victims Sergei and Yulia Skripal, it has emerged.
Abigail McCourt was with her family when she saw the 66-year-old former KGB spy and his daughter collapsed on a bench at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury on the afternoon of 5 March last year.
The 16-year-old thought Skripal had suffered a heart attack and alerted her mother, Alison, who is an army colonel and chief nursing officer, and they went to administer first aid.
Novichok poisoning victims first helped by teenage girl
Abigail McCourt was with her family when she saw the 66-year-old former KGB spy and his daughter collapsed on a bench at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury on the afternoon of 5 March last year.
The 16-year-old thought Skripal had suffered a heart attack and alerted her mother, Alison, who is an army colonel and chief nursing officer, and they went to administer first aid.
Novichok poisoning victims first helped by teenage girl
