{"id":4340,"date":"2025-12-04T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:40:24","slug":"russias-putin-found-morally-responsible-for-nerve-agent-death-in-uk-skripal-poisoning-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=4340","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Putin found \u2018morally responsible\u2019 for nerve agent death in UK | Skripal Poisoning News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>Dawn Sturgess, 44, was unwittingly caught up in an assassination attempt against the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 4 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">4 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>A public inquiry has found that Russian President Vladimir Putin bears \u201cmoral responsibility\u201d for the death of a British woman in a nerve agent attack in the English city of Salisbury in March 2018, with the UK government responding by sanctioning the Russian intelligence agency (GRU) accused of carrying it out.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Thursday after the inquiry\u2019s findings were published, its chair, Anthony Hughes, a former senior judge, said Putin had \u201cauthorised the mission\u201d to assassinate the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.<\/p>\n<section class=\"more-on\">\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories<!-- --> <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The conduct of the Russian leader and the alleged GRU agents who planted the poison was \u201castonishingly reckless,\u201d Hughes added.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin continues to deny its involvement in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Skripal, a former GRU officer imprisoned in Russia for spying for the United Kingdom, came to the UK after being released in a 2010 spy swap.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, he and his daughter Yulia were discovered unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury, poisoned by the Russian nerve agent Novichok that had been daubed on the door handle of their homes. They survived after intensive hospital treatment and now live under protection.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dawn Sturgess, 44, a mother-of-three, died four months later, shortly after spraying herself with what she thought was perfume from a discarded bottle, but which turned out to contain the deadly chemical.<\/p>\n<p>Sturgess was \u201cthe entirely innocent victim of the cruel and cynical acts of others\u201d, said Hughes, the inquiry chair.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Andrew O\u2019Connor told the public inquiry into her death, which started last year, that she was unwittingly caught up in an \u201cillegal and outrageous international assassination attempt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The perfume bottle contained enough Novichok to poison \u201cthousands\u201d of people, O\u2019Connor noted.<\/p>\n<p>Sturgess\u2019 family said her death came as \u201cdirect result of Russia\u2019s cruel and cynical attempt to assassinate Sergei Skripal\u201d, but that the British authorities had failed to assess the threat against the former Russian spy, something which \u201cput the British public at risk, and led to Dawn\u2019s death\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdequate risk assessment of Skripal was not done, but no protective steps were put in place,\u201d they said in a statement. \u201dThat is a serious concern, for us now, and for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry into her death concluded that there had been \u201cfailings\u201d around Skripal\u2019s security, but determined it was not \u201cunreasonable\u201d for British intelligence to not consider his assassination risk high.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Hughes\u2019 report, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the findings \u201ca grave reminder of the Kremlin\u2019s disregard for innocent lives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the UK foreign minister said it was sanctioning the GRU \u201cin its entirety\u201d, along with 11 \u201cactors behind Russian state-sponsored hostile activity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>London also said that it had summoned the Russian ambassador to answer for Moscow\u2019s \u201congoing campaign of hostile activity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Another UK inquiry concluded in 2016 that Putin \u201cprobably approved\u201d the 2006 killing in London of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. The prominent Kremlin critic died after being poisoned with radioactive polonium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn Sturgess, 44, was unwittingly caught up in an assassination attempt against the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. 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