Happy new year and welcome to the first Guardian Weekly of 2019 – our centenary year. Many will be hoping that it also means the halfway mark of his presidency and well … we’ll see. The decision shocked his own generals and diplomats and cost him the services of his defence secretary James Mattis. Skripal somehow managed to survive what many believe was a Putin-approved novichok attack – making him one of only two living GRU defectors. Subscribe to The Guardian Weekly

Source: The Guardian January 02, 2019 09:00 UTC