Russian President Vladimir Putin is the one who approved the Novichok neurotoxic agent attack on ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal in 2018, concludes an independent investigation conducted in the UK, according to Agerpres, which quotes Reuters.
It was a “stunning act of recklessness” that led to the death of an innocent British woman, the investigation concludes, made public on Thursday.
Putin bears the “moral responsibility” for the death of this woman, a collateral victim of the assassination attempt on Skripal, who survived the attack, the investigators further state.
Skripal was found along with his daughter, Julia, unconscious on a bench in the city of Salisbury, in southwest England, in March 2018.
The neurotoxic agent Novichok had been applied previously on the door at the entrance to his house, located nearby.
Four months later, Dawn Sturgess, aged 44 and a mother of three, died from exposure to the poison, after her partner gave her a counterfeit perfume bottle.
The man had retrieved the bottle from a trash bin, where it had been discarded by the Russian agents who used it against Skripal.
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