UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson has blamed Russia for the death of a woman who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok, the same type of nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
“The simple reality is that Russia has committed an attack on British soil which has seen the death of a British citizen,” Williamson said when asked in the British parliament about the threat facing people in Britain.
“That is something that I think the world will unite with us in actually condemning,” Williamson said.
Asked whether Russia could be responsible, Wallace said: “Based on the evidence we had at the time of the Skripal attack, the knowledge they [Russia] had developed Novichok, they had explored assassination programs in the past, they had motive, form and stated policy, we would still assert to a very high assurance that the Russian state was behind the original attack.
He spoke hours after Russian President…