Skripal and Yulia's Death

Sergei Skripal and his wife settled into a new chapter in their lives in Salisbury, England. Over the next few years he continued to cooperate with Western intelligence services. He traveled throughout Europe and to the United States as a guest speaker. This activity probably helped keep him on Putin's target list. Then in March 2018, Skripal's daughter, Yulia, traveled to Salisbury from Moscow to visit her father and ask her his blessing for her marriage. At nearly the same time that she arrived, two GRU agents traveled to England with false passports. They brought with them a small sample of Novichok, which they had disguised in a bottle of Nina Ricci