UK believes Putin personally authorised Salisbury novichok attack, inquiry told

UK believes Putin personally authorised Salisbury novichok attack, inquiry told

Dawn Sturgess inquiry hears from Foreign Office and from Sergei Skripal, who said Russia thought he was still working for the west

The UK government believes that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, personally authorised the Salisbury novichok poisonings, which could have killed thousands of people, an inquiry has been told.

A senior Foreign Office (FCDO) official has given a statement to the inquiry in which he spells out that the British government has concluded the nerve agent attack was so sensitive that Putin must have given it the go-ahead.

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