"Novice", who was poisoned by the Skripals, was developed in the Saratov region

The substance "Novice", which, according to the British authorities, were poisoned by ex-colonel of the GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughters, developed in the laboratory of the city of Shikhana of the Saratov region. About this writes The Times.

These data were voiced by British special services at a briefing, after which a number of Western countries decided to send Russian diplomats. According to special services, in Schikhanov, in recent decades, the newcomer tests. According to the intelligence of Great Britain, Russia has few reserves of substance, which allows us to use it only “for point murders”. The ex-military service and chemical weapon expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon called the information from the briefing “convincing”, noting that, most likely, “the Russians notice traces while we are talking about this.”

Earlier it became known that in the House of Skripal in Salisbury, which the police sealed after the attempt, two guinea pigs from dehydration died . Skripal's cat was found alive, but was in a state of severe stress. He was taken to a military laboratory to Porton Dawn in order to conduct tests for a “novice”, but, according to representatives of the environmental department, the animal suffered so that it was decided to put it up.

Recall that the GRU officer Sergei Skripal, convicted in Russia, was hospitalized in English in critical condition. Together with Skripal with similar symptoms and his daughter Julia is also hospitalized in critical condition.

Skripal served in the GRU until 1999. The FSB arrested him in December 2004, accusing him of cooperation with British intelligence. Skripal pleaded guilty and in 2006 was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony.

In the same year, Skripal, as well as the scientist Igor Sutyagin and two more convicts for treason, Alexander Zaporizhsky and Gennady Vasilenko were exchanged for a group of Russian intelligence agents exposed in the United States. Among them were Major General of the SVR Mikhail Vasenkov and Anna Chapman.

On March 12, the British Prime Minister Teresa May said that Skripal was poisoned by the Novice nervous paralytic substance, which has been developed in the USSR since the 1970s. According to London, Russia is behind the poisoning of the ex-colonel of the GRU. Great Britain sent 23 Russian diplomats from the country and announced the boycott of the 2018 World Cup. Following these were the expulsion of Russian diplomats from another 23 countries. Moscow answered the same.

The Telegraph, citing the British intelligence services, reported that the neuro-paralytic substance that was poisoned by Skripal was imported into the UK in his daughter’s suitcase from Russia.