One of the developers of Novichok, Vladimir Uglev, was hit by a car • The Bell • RIMA

One of the developers of Novichok, Vladimir Uglev, was hit by a car

One developer of the Novichok nerve agent (according to the UK, was used in Salisbury to poison former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia) Vladimir Uglev was hit by a car, he himself told The Bell.

Details

The incident occurred on Tuesday, April 24, near Anapa. Uglev crossed the road at a pedestrian crossing next to the house where he lives.
According to Uglev, he noticed that a car was driving and did not slow down, he ran and was already almost on the sidewalk when the car nevertheless “caught up” with him. In order not to be under the wheels, Uglev jumped onto the hood. As a result, his head broke the windshield of the car.
At the moment, as Uglev said, he is in a hospital in Anapa and is waiting for the doctors' opinion. The condition is satisfactory. He had a head injury and severe hematomas on his right arm and right leg. Doctors did a tomography of the head, the results have not yet been announced.
Uglev was hit by a 70-year-old resident of the same village, who did not flee the scene. After the collision, he offered Uglev money. According to the driver, before the accident, he thought, says the scientist.
According to Uglev, the hit was not planned.

Context

Vladimir Uglev is one of the employees of the group that developed nerve agents called Novichok. Uglev gave The Bell the first interview, in which he spoke in detail about the preparations of this line ( interview ).
"Novichok", according to the British authorities, poisoned ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.
According to Uglev, a former researcher at the Volsk branch of GOSNIIOKhT, it was at this institute that, since 1972, the development and pilot production of poisonous substances of the Novichok line was carried out. He left the research institute in 1994 and is now retired.
After an interview with a BBC scientist (in which Uglev stated his confidence that Novichok was used in Salisbury), the Russian Embassy in the UK asked London whether the British authorities were passing information on the Skripal case to private individuals.

Natalia Gevorkyan, Svetlana Reiter