UK - Sergei, 66, & Yulia Skripal, 33, poisoned, Salisbury, 4 March 2018

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A man who is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire is a Russian national convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC understands.

Sergei Skripal, 66, was granted refuge in the UK following a "spy swap" between the US and Russia in 2010.

He and a woman, 33, were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping centre in Salisbury on Sunday afternoon.
The substance has not been identified.

Wiltshire Police are investigating whether a crime has been committed. They said the pair had no visible injuries but had been found unconscious at the Maltings shopping centre.

They have declared a "major incident" and multiple agencies are investigating. They said it had not been declared as a counter-terrorism incident, but they were keeping an "open mind".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43295134
 
Who is Sergei Skripal?

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Sergei Skripal is a former Russian army colonel convicted of passing the identities of Moscow agents working undercover in Europe to MI6 in 2006. He arrived in the UK as part of a high-profile spy swap in 2010.

Skripal was sentenced to 13 years in jail for spying for Britain in August 2006 in Russia after being convicted of “high treason in the form of espionage”. Russian prosecutors said he had been paid $100,000 by MI6 for information, which he had been supplying since the 1990s when he was a serving officer.

In July 2010, the then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, pardoned Skripal and the former colonel was one of four spies exchanged for 10 deep cover “sleeper” agents planted in the US by Moscow, including Anna Chapman, the daughter of a Russian diplomat who became the most recognisable of the group after her former husband sold photographs to the press detailing her social life and travels.

Skripal and another Russian were flown to the UK after the exchange and were debriefed by MI5 and MI6 officers. It was assumed that Skripal had since been given a new identity, a home and a pension.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/05/salisbury-incident-critically-ill-man-is-former-russian-spy-sergei-skripal
 
Feels like Litvinenko all over again.
 
Woman found with him is his daughter.
 
The second person found unconscious in Salisbury alongside the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is his daughter.


Yulia Skripal was discovered on a bench next her father and is in a critical condition in hospital. She lives in Russia but was visiting the UK, the BBC reported, adding that relatives had not heard from her for two days.

The apparent poisoning of the pair follows the death of Skripal’s wife Liudmila in 2012. She arrived in Britain with her husband – who was swapped in 2010 as part of a spy exchange – and had lived with him in Wiltshire.

A certificate recorded the cause of her death on 23 October 2012, aged 59, as “disseminated endometrial carcinoma”. Skripal’s son also died recently on a visit to St Petersburg with his girlfriend, aged 43, the BBC has reported.

Police are continuing to try to establish what the substance was that Skripal, 66, and his daughter, who is in her 30s, were exposed to in Salisbury at the weekend.

A police officer stands outside a restaurant in Salisbury that was closed after Sergei Skripal and a woman were found unconscious on a bench nearby.

The bench where the pair collapsed unconscious in the Maltings shopping centre next to the river Avon was still cordoned off on Tuesday morning, as was a nearby Italian chain restaurant.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...nvestigate-russian-spy-mystery-sergei-skripal
 
Investigators believe a nerve agent was used to poison the former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury on Sunday.

It is believed to have been a deliberate act and the two victims are still critically ill in hospital.

The medical and chemical evidence and the effects on the victims point to a nerve agent. Sources would not discuss which one. The best known are VX and sarin.

Although further details are awaited, the suspicion in Downing Street will be that the Kremlin has carried out another brazen assassination operation on British soil.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...al-for-witnesses-as-cobra-meeting-takes-place
 
VX was developed at Porton Down, just down the road from where this assassination attempt took place.

It might not be a V-series agent. Possibly a Novichok.

Edit: In saying that, if it was a Novichok, the targets and many more would have died. Some sources are talking about a very rare agent, only produced in 3 labs worldwide.

Most nerve agents in the UK, US, Russia etc are kept for the purpose of testing CBRN suits and antidotes.
 
About 180 military personnel have been deployed to Salisbury to help in the investigation into the attempted murder of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter.

They will include Royal Marines and military personnel who have specialist training in chemical warfare and decontamination, the BBC understands.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on Sunday afternoon after being exposed to a nerve agent.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has described the attack as "outrageous".

The BBC's Daniel Sandford said the military personnel were "experts in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear warfare".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43344725
 
Interesting that his daughter had just recently arrived from Russia.
 
Nerve agents are fast acting, I doubt they were poisoned in their home, if that was the case they would have been found there. The must have been attacked just moments after the CCTV footage shows them walking down the street.
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/skripal-london-russia-poison-probe-1.4569071
[h=1]Police in Britain focus on Russian spy's house, movements in poisoning probe[/h][h=2]British authorities know the substance used — not yet publicly revealed — but not its source[/h]Thomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 09, 2018 9:54 AM
Police have cordoned off Skripal's modest home in Salisbury, about 130 kilometres from London, and erected forensic tents in the garden. Officers were guarding the area where he and his daughter were found, along with a pizza restaurant and a pub they had visited and the graves of Skripal's wife and son.
Twenty-one people were taken to hospital following the incident, but apart from the Skripals, only Det.-Sgt. Nick Bailey, the first police officer on the scene, is still being treated. He remains in serious condition although he is now able to talk, Rudd said. She declined to give details of the police investigation.
Former London police chief Ian Blair said Friday that Bailey had visited Skripal's house – perhaps a hint that the nerve agent may have been delivered there.

Blair told BBC radio that Bailey "has actually been to the house, whereas there is a doctor who looked after the patients in the open who hasn't been affected at all. There may be some clues floating around in here."
rbbm.
 
So we are possibly looking at a slow-acting substance then, if he was infected at home and then went out for dinner
 
So we are possibly looking at a slow-acting substance then, if he was infected at home and then went out for dinner
Wild thought, but wondering if the doorknob at the house might have been contaminated somehow?
It would presumably be one of the last things touched when exiting the house and likely the first thing the policeman would have touched when he went there to investigate.
imo, speculation.
 

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