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Express.co.uk: After horror of Salisbury attack, ex-KGB spy admits Russia ordered him to poison enemies

Published Sept. 9, 2018. Updated Sept. 9 at 4:49 pm

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May (C) talks with Wiltshire Police's Chief Constable Kier Pritchard (L) in Salisbury, southern England, on March 15, as she is shown the area where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were discovered on March 4, following an apparent nerve agent attack.

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Boris Karpichkov, 59, who fled to the UK in 1998, described an assassination technique identical to the one believed to have been used to target double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.

Mr Skripal and his daguhter Yulia were poisoned in March by nerve agent Novichok, left by Russian agents.