LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the entire GRU military intelligence agency that was singled out in a UK public inquiry into the 2018 death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.

The government also summoned the Russian ambassador to demand a response to the inquiry’s findings and over what it called Moscow’s “ongoing campaign of hostile activity” against Britain.

The public inquiry concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the nerve agent attack by GRU operatives on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in an incident that led to the death of an innocent woman, Dawn Sturgess.

“Today’s findings are a grave reminder of the Kremlin’s disregard for innocent lives,” Prime Minister Keir S

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