Ex-GRU Colonel Poisoned in Britain Feared for His Life
What's happened The 66-year-old former intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, poisoned in the UK, filed a statement with the British police that he fears for his life, The Telegraph and a number of other British media outlets write. Details Yesterday it became known that Skripal, convicted in Russia of spying for Britain, was hospitalized in critical condition after "contact with an unknown substance" in a shopping center in Salisbury.