What the UK inquiry concluded about Putin’s role in the Novichok death

A new British inquiry has formally laid out how a discarded bottle of military-grade nerve agent led to the death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018, and why investigators say the chain of responsibility extends directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The findings arrive as European governments confront what they describe as a widening campaign of Kremlin-backed sabotage across the continent, the New York Times reported. How a botched operation turned fatal for a civilian

The inquiry’s central finding is stark. Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three, died after unknowingly applying a Novichok nerve agent disguised inside a perfume bottle. The container had been thrown away months earlier by two Russian intelligence officers involved in an attempted assassination in Salisbury.

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