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Sergei Skripal: woman found unconscious identified as Russian spy’s daughter
Mar 6, 2018

Yulia Skripal and her father are in a critical condition after collapsing in a Salisbury shopping centre

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Police guard the site where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was found unconscious

The woman found unconscious in Salisbury alongside the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal is his daughter, it has emerged.

Yulia Skripal, who was discovered on Sunday afternoon slumped on a shopping centre bench next to her father, is fighting for her life in hospital. She lives in Russia but was visiting the UK, according to the BBC, which says 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”, says The Guardian. Liudmila Skripal arrived in Britain with her husband – who was “swapped” as part of a spy exchange – in 2010 and lived with him in Wiltshire.
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A certificate recorded the cause of her death, at the age of 59, as “disseminated endometrial carcinoma”.

Skripal’s son died, aged 43, during a visit to St Petersburg last year, says the BBC.

The hospitalisation of Skripal and his daughter has led to renewed interest in a report by Buzzfeed News last June that linked 14 “gruesome deaths” on British soil to Russian assassins.

Hermitage Capital Management’s CEO Bill Browder – who is fighting for justice following the death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, in a Moscow prison in 2009 – claims the attack on the Skripals was a murder attempt.

Speaking to the Press Association, Browder said: “We don’t know much, but based on the headlines from yesterday, who the person was, his relationship with the Kremlin and the circumstances of his collapse, the first operating assumption should be that this was an assassination attempt by the Kremlin against a traitor of Russia.”

The incident comes just over ten years after the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London.

Litvinenko’s friend Alex Goldfarb told the Guardian that Russian President Vladimir Putin “apparently sees positive electoral gain from this kind of activity”.

However, an unnamed Russia expert told The Times that it was unlikely that Putin “would authorise a high-profile attack shortly before presidential elections”.
6 March
Sergei Skripal: former Russian spy ‘critically ill’ in UK

A Russian double-agent is in critical condition in hospital after “suspected exposure to an unknown substance” left him and his daughter unconscious in a shopping centre in Salisbury on Sunday.

Sergei Skripal, 66, was “one of four Russians exchanged for ten deep cover ‘sleeper’ agents planted by Moscow in the US” in 2010, says The Guardian.

He “served in Russian military intelligence as a colonel until 1999”, says Sky News, but was convicted of spying for Britain in 2006, and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Russia said Skripal had been paid more than $100,000 to provide the identities of Russian intelligence agents working in Europe since 1995.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the former spy “had recently gone to police claiming he was fearing for his life”, leading to suspicions that he might have been deliberately poisoned.

Zizzi restaurant, close to where the couple were found, has been closed on advice from Public Health England, suggesting Skripal and his wife may have eaten there before falling ill.

The incident comes just over ten years after the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in London.
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