UK sets out new sanctions against Russia after Novichok report

LONDON: Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the state's GRU military intelligence agency, following a UK public inquiry report into the death of a woman after being poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.

Britain also summoned the Russian ambassador over what it called Moscow's "ongoing campaign of hostile activity".

The inquiry concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the nerve agent attack 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 Starmer said in the government's statement.