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According to news agency PA, British police believe they have identified the alleged perpetrators of the Novichok attack against former Russian spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Julia in Salisbury in March. Among them are several Russians, reported Thursday the Palestinian Authority, citing a source of the investigation.
"Investigators believe they identified the suspects in Nowitschok's attack with surveillance cameras," PA adds. named source. The records were matched with the UK entry data. "They (the investigators) are sure that they (the suspects) are Russians," the AP continues.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had just a few days ago London's allegations that Moscow is behind the poisoning of Nowitschok's nervous substance in the UK, dismissed as "aimless". London has provided no evidence that Russia is responsible for poisoning scripts, Putin told Fox News, an American station.
"We would like written evidence, but nobody delivers it to us," Putin said. Behind the case, domestic problems in the UK: "But nobody wants to take into account".
At the height of the Cold War
The substance that poisoned the ex-spy and his daughter and later a couple in the south of England came from the group called Nowitschok. The name of the chemical weapon in Russian means something like "newcomer".
Soviet scientists developed poison between 1970 and 1980 at the height of the Cold War in a state research institute in Moscow. One of the "fathers" of Nowitschok's poisons is Wil Mirsajanow, who emigrated to the United States in 1995. According to him, half a gram of Nowitschok's poison is enough to kill a person weighing 50 kilograms.
Nerve toxins are agents that attack the nervous systems – especially the enzymes responsible for communication with the muscles. They first trigger cramps, then paralysis and eventually lead to death by suffocation or heart failure. To circumvent international bans, Nowitschok has been developed in secret.
Nowitschok, which is often used in the form of an extremely fine powder, enters the body through the skin or the respiratory tract and usually causes suffocation within a few hours. The poison is hard to prove, the chances of survival are low. Common antidotes, such as atropine, tend to do little poisoning of this kind.
Deep fracture between London and Moscow
The case of Skripal led to a deep gap between Great Britain and Russia. The Western allies were in solidarity with the government in London, which had expelled a number of Russian diplomats.
(APA / dpa)
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