UK police issued arrest warrants for the extradition of the two Russian nationals, Alexander Petrov (left) and Ruslan Boshirov, in connection with the Novichok poisoning attack in Salisbury. Metropolitan Police/PA Reuters —

Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in an “astonishingly reckless” act that led to the death of an innocent woman, a UK public inquiry concluded on Thursday.

Skripal was found along with his daughter Yulia slumped unconscious on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury in March 2018 after Novichok was applied to the front door handle of his nearby home.

About four months later, mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died from exposure to the pois

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