How 7-Year Investigation Into UK Novichok Poisonings Led Back to Kremlin

Undated images of a perfume bottle (Left) containing the deadly nerve agent Novichok—and the fake packaging (Right) it came in—which killed Dawn Sturgess in Salisbury, England, on July 8, 2018. Metropolitan Police/Dawn Sturgess InquiryAn attack in 2018 using the nerve agent Novichok—which targeted a former Russian agent, Sergei Skripal, but unwittingly killed 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess—was carried out on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a report published at the conclusion of a 14-month public inquiry.The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry published its report on Dec. 4, and the chair, Lord Anthony Hughes, ruled out both a “staged attack” by Britain and an initiative taken by rogue Russian agents.