The United States is planning a new set “severe” sanctions on Russia over the alleged attempt by Kremlin agents to kill a turncoat spy in Britain, a State Department official said on Thursday. Assistant Secretary of State, Manisha Singh, told a congressional hearing that Russia has not yet accepted demands that it come clean about its […] …
Spy poisoning
Russian ex-spy Skripal discharged from hospital
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Britain, triggering a diplomatic crisis with Russia, has been discharged from hospital, the facility said Friday. “It is fantastic news that Sergei Skripal is well enough to leave Salisbury District Hospital,” Cara Charles-Barks, the hospital’s chief executive, said in a statement. Director […] …
Russia spied on Skripals before poisoning, says Britain
Russian intelligence was spying on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were poisoned in a nerve agent attack, Britain’s National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill said in a letter to NATO on Friday. Sedwill also said that Russia has tested means of delivering chemical agents “including […] …
Watchdog confirms UK findings on nerve agent used on Russian spy
The world’s chemical arms watchdog on Thursday said it had confirmed Britain’s findings on a nerve agent used in an attack on a former spy last month, which London said came from Russia. Samples tested by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the […] …
BREAKING: OPCW to release statement on spy poisoning
The world’s chemical arms watchdog said it will release a statement around 1100 GMT Thursday about a probe into last month’s alleged poisoning of a former Russian double agent. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons “will be issuing a press release anticipated for 1 PM today and the unclassified executive summary per the […] …
Poisoned Russian spy, daughter may get new identities in America
Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal; and his daughter, Yulia, could be offered the chance of a new life in the United States. The father and daughter are recovering from the injuries they suffered in a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in March. According to the Sunday Times, Britain is considering offering the pair new […] …
Russian ex-spy ‘improving rapidly’ after poisoning
The former Russian spy who was found slumped in an English city after being poisoned is no longer in critical condition and is “improving rapidly,” the hospital treating him said Friday. It was the first official news on the condition of Sergei Skripal, 66, since he and his daughter Yulia were found poisoned on a […] …
Russia TV airs purported call with poisoned spy’s daughter
Russian state television on Thursday aired what it said was a phone conversation between a relative and Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former double agent. Presenters on Rossiya 1 television’s “60 Minutes” talk show said they had obtained the recording from Yulia’s cousin Viktoria but added […] …
Lavrov says spy poisoning could be ‘in interests’ of UK government
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday suggested that the poisoning of a former double agent could benefit the British government by distracting attention from problems around Brexit. The March 4 attack on Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury has triggered a wave of tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats between the West […] …
Spy poisoning: Expelled Russians arrive home as Moscow warns against travel to UK
Russian diplomats expelled from the United States arrived in Moscow on Sunday, with post-Cold War tensions soaring in the wake of a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. A deepening crisis in ties between Russia and the West over the past weeks has seen the biggest wave of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions […] …