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A woman who lived a short distance from where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent has died. Prime Minister Theresa May is "appalled and shocked" by the death:
Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman exposed to nerve agent Novichok in Wiltshire died. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday evening after falling critically ill on 30 June. Charlie Rowley, 45, who was also exposed to the nerve agent in Amesbury, remains critically ill in hospital.
[...] Officers are still trying to work out how Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley were exposed to the nerve agent although tests have confirmed they touched a contaminated item with their hands.
[...] Mrs May sent her "thoughts and condolences" and said officials are "working urgently to establish the facts". She said: "The government is committed to providing full support to the local community as it deals with this tragedy." British diplomat Julian King, the European Commissioner responsible for the EU's security union, said: "Those behind this are murderers."
[...] The working hypothesis is that the pair became contaminated after touching a poison container left over from the March attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal. The death of Dawn Sturgess, a British citizen on British soil, now changes the investigation to a murder inquiry, with all the diplomatic and security ramifications that carries. Britain has been blaming Moscow for the original attack in March, saying there is no plausible alternative to the Kremlin having ordered the assassination attempt. Russia has denied any involvement, suggesting instead this was the action of a weak British government looking to undermine the success of the current World Cup being hosted by Russia.
Here's something from the other side.
Previously: Former Russian Spy Exposed to "Unknown Substance" in Salisbury, England
Use of Nerve Agent Confirmed in Skripal Assassination Attempt
UK Gives Russia Until Midnight to Explain Use of Novichok Nerve Agent
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 09 2018, @07:55PM (3 children)
How can you tell Bolton's a Russian agent? He looks like a carpenter from Alabama.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday July 09 2018, @08:38PM (2 children)
He is being friendly with the Russians, clearly he is on the take. Up until now I assumed [[[John Bolton]]] was just an extreme pro-American neocon that was fully America-first and just didn't give a shit about the rest of the world because he believed America is the best, but because he was on friendly terms with Russia it is clear he is an agent and has probably always been an agent. Why else would [[[Drumphf]]] send an ultra-neocon to go and serve his master [[[Putin]]] unless that person has always been pro-Russian?
Think about it. [[[John Bolton]]] used to go on [[[Red]]]eye on Fox News. [[[Bolton]]] has a mustache that is oddly reminiscent of a one [[[Joseph Stalin]]].
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 09 2018, @09:30PM (1 child)
This isn't a very good troll, Sulla :/ I get what you're trying to do, but it's a little too obvious.
...and on the flip side, it's actually much truer than you think, in an indirect way: this administrations complete and utter blind nationalistic idiocy is giving Russia *exactly* what they want. Putin must be pissing himself laughing every night.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 10 2018, @05:20PM
Sanctions on Russia.
If you can't remove them, put tariffs on everyone else. Effectively, sanctions now removed.