British prosecutors have announced charges against two Russian men they believe poisoned former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a deadly nerve agent, and Prime Minister Theresa May said the government has concluded the suspects were military intelligence officers acting with approval from “a senior level of the Russian state.”
In a statement on Sept. 5, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that it was “clearly in the public interest to charge” the Russians, Aleksander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, with crimes including attempted murder and the use of a chemical weapon.
