One is the notorious Yasenevo lab of Russia’s foreign spy service on the outskirts of Moscow, pointing Russia as the prime suspect in Skripal’s poisoning on Sunday
SERGEI Skripal was poisoned by a very rare nerve agent which only a few laboratories in the world could have produced, security sources have told The Sun.
One is the Yasenevo lab, run by Russia’s SVR spy service on Moscow’s outskirts.
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A chemical weapons expert said the hit in Salisbury bore all the hallmarks of a sarin attack.
The fast-acting toxin can be sprayed into a victim’s face or dripped into food or water.
A droplet the size of a pin head can kill.
Skripal and Yulia ate lunch at a Zizzi restaurant then went to The Mill pub before they collapsed.
It is thought their food or drink could have been spiked in either place — or an attacker may have sprayed them with a toxin.
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Last night cops were said to be probing whether Yulia, visiting her father from Russia, unwittingly brought the nerve agent with her.
A source told The Times she had brought a “gift from friends”.
The lives of ex-Colonel Skripal and daughter Yulia may yet be saved by their closeness to government lab Porton Down, which is just outside Salisbury.
It stockpiles atropine, an antidote for nerve agents.
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Excl: Intelligence chiefs now suspect nerve agent that poisoned Sergei Skripal was developed in the SVR's notorious Yasenevo lab in Moscow;https://t.co/Gshks0O5Ss
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) March 7, 2018
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