A UK public inquiry has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorized the 2018 Novichok nerve agent attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, calling it a “reckless” state operation that killed an innocent British woman.
Investigators found that Russian GRU officers smeared the military-grade toxin on Skripal’s Salisbury home, leaving Skripal, his daughter, and a responding officer critically ill.
✍️ 'The release of the Salisbury inquiry’s report today is a stark reminder that Russia’s hybrid war against the West did not begin yesterday' | Writes @HamishDBG
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 4, 2025
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Months later, Dawn Sturgess died after unknowingly handling the discarded, contaminated perfume bottle used to smuggle the poison into Britain.
Inquiry chair Anthony Hughes said the evidence of Russian state involvement was “overwhelming” and held Putin and his intelligence hierarchy morally responsible.
The final report into the death of a woman poisoned after being exposed to the Russian nerve agent Novichok will be published today. Dawn Sturgess, a mum of three, died in Salisbury District Hospital in July 2018. An inquiry into her death heard seven weeks of evidence -… pic.twitter.com/n2A2mvfmMz
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) December 4, 2025
London responded with new sanctions on the GRU and summoned Moscow’s ambassador.
The attack marked one of the most brazen Russian operations on Western soil since the Cold War and follows earlier findings that Putin likely ordered the 2006 killing of Alexander Litvinenko.
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