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Russian Ex-Spy, Skripal Discharged From Hospital

Name: Russian Ex-Spy, Skripal Discharged From Hospital
Uploaded: 2018-05-18T14:50:32+01:00
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Description: The Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, who was exposed to a nerve agent, has been discharged from Salisbury district hospital, health officials have said.

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18 May 2018

2:50 PM

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Russian Ex-Spy, Skripal Discharged From Hospital

The Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal, who was exposed to a nerve agent, has been discharged from Salisbury district hospital, health officials have said.

Skripal’s release follows that of his daughter, Yulia, and DS Nick Bailey, who were also exposed to novichok in March. Both Yulia and Sergei are being cared for in a secret location. It has not been made clear if they are together.

The hospital said: “While these patients have now been discharged, their right to patient confidentiality remains and limits us from giving detailed accounts of the treatment these individuals received.

“However, treating people who are so acutely unwell, having been poisoned by nerve agents, requires stabilising them, keeping them alive until their bodies could produce more enzymes to replace those that had been poisoned.”.

A spokeswoman for British Prime Minister Theresa May, who called the attack a “reckless and despicable act”, welcomed Skripal’s discharge.

Russia has denied involvement in the first known offensive use of such a nerve agent on European soil since World War Two.

Moscow suggested Britain carried out the attack itself to stoke anti-Russian hysteria, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said last month that the agent used in the attack may have never been made in Russia.

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