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On 30 June 2018, in Amesbury, two British nationals, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire, England.Police determined that they were poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent of the same kind used in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, 8 miles (13 km) away, almost four months prior.
In the UK, the response to the poisonings was viewed as a success. [272] Initially there were criticisms of the intelligence failures with the supposed GRU agents gaining access to the UK in the first place. [273] After the Litvinenko poisoning, however, there were calls for more robust action against Russia, should an event like it unfold. [274]
The Salisbury Poisonings is a fact-based drama television series, starring Anne-Marie Duff, Rafe Spall and Annabel Scholey [1] [2] which portrays the 2018 Novichok poisonings and decontamination crisis in Salisbury, England, and the subsequent Amesbury poisonings.
Former head of UK counter-terrorism policing, Neil Basu, was speaking as an inquiry into how Dawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned six years ago continues
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COMMISSION U.K. broadcaster ITV has commissioned 4×60′ psychological thriller drama series “Platform 7” from Dancing Ledge Productions (“The Responder,” “The Salisbury Poisonings”).
In the twenty-first century, Novichok agents came to public attention after they were used to poison opponents of the Russian government, including the Skripals and two others in Amesbury, UK (2018), as well as Alexei Navalny (2020), but Russian civil poisonings with this substance have been known since at least 1995.
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