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Solved March 4, 2018 Assassination Attempt

Sergei & Yulia Skripal Poisoning

Status Solved
Type Assassination Attempt
Date March 4, 2018
Location Salisbury, United Kingdom
Victim Age Unknown
Gender Mixed

Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England. Both survived. Russian GRU officers were identified as suspects.

On March 4, 2018, former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury, England. They had been poisoned with Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent.

The nerve agent had been applied to the front door handle of Sergei's home. A police officer, Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, was also contaminated and hospitalized. All three survived.

In June 2018, two unrelated individuals found a discarded perfume bottle containing Novichok. Dawn Sturgess died after spraying herself with it, thinking it was perfume. Her partner Charlie Rowley survived.

British authorities identified two GRU officers—'Alexander Petrov' and 'Ruslan Boshirov' (aliases)—through CCTV and travel records. Investigative journalists later identified them as Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga and Dr. Alexander Mishkin. Russia denied involvement.

assassination attempt United Kingdom 2010s solved
2018-03-04
Skripals poisoned with Novichok in Salisbury.
2018-06-30
Dawn Sturgess dies from same Novichok batch.
2018-09-05
Two GRU suspects identified by UK.

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