British police said Tuesday they are charging a third Russian suspect in the 2018 nerve agent attack on a former Russian agent in England. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed the suspects were civilians, and the two suspects appeared on Russian television claiming they had visited Salisbury as tourists. Police said Tuesday they have evidence that the third suspect, Sergey Fedotov is really Denis Sergeev, a member of the Russian military intelligence service known as the GRU. Skripal, a Russian military intelligence officer turned double agent for Britain, and his daughter Yulia, who was visiting him, spent weeks in critical condition after the attack. Three months later, two local residents who apparently came across a discarded vial that contained the nerve agent fell ill. One recovered, but the other died.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 21, 2021 09:56 UTC