Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent in Britain, triggering a diplomatic crisis with Russia, has been discharged from hospital, the facility said Friday. “It is fantastic news that Sergei Skripal is well enough to leave,” Salisbury District Hospital’s chief executive Cara Charles-Barks said in a statement. Nursing director Lorna Wilkinson said treating him and two others poisoned by the same nerve agent had been “a huge and unprecedented challenge”. He was discharged several weeks after the attack, while Yulia Skripal was treated in hospital for just over a month. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said their offer of consular assistance had been passed to Yulia Skripal but that she had turned it down.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2018 12:22 UTC