Daily Mirror

SURRENDER AT HISTORIC SUMMIT

Salmond tweet con Pitch invader is jailed

- BY CHRIS HUGHES Defence and Security Editor

SMILES Melania, Putin and Trump THE Kremlin-backed Alex Salmond Show misled viewers by pretending TV staff tweets were by the public, said Ofcom.

The watchdog probed the ex-Scottish first minister’s debut show on RT, formerly Russia Today, in November last year.

It said: “The show broke our rules.” A PROTESTER from band Pussy Riot who ran on the pitch dressed as a police officer during Sunday’s World Cup final was jailed.

A Moscow court gave Veronika Nikulshina a 15-day sentence. She was one of four who interrupte­d France’s win over Croatia to highlight human rights abuses. PROBE Forensic teams look for clues COUNTER-TERROR police believe a female assassin was among the Russian hit-squad behind the Novichok nerve agent attack.

Detectives and MI5 have CCTV footage of some of the team who sparked the deadly poisoning.

Up to six people launched a revenge op targeting ex-Moscow spy, turned MI6 mole Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia on March 4.

The death of Dawn Sturgess and poisoning of her partner Charlie Rowley sparked a breakthrou­gh four months into the investigat­ion.

Sources say a mystery container which had carried the Novichok and is linked to the Skripal attack is a perfume bottle. It backs the theory that a woman may have been on the Skripal hit as her carrying a perfume bottle would have appeared natural.

As a woman she may also have posed much less of a threat to the Skripals. Police have revealed the deadly nerve agent was found on the Skripal’s door handle – a known method used by Russians.

It is thought a highly trained female Russian spy attached to Moscow’s feared GRU military intelligen­ce unit was in the kill crew.

A western intelligen­ce source told the Mirror: “It makes sense that a female officer may have been part of the team, playing a key role.”

Dawn and Charlie were exposed to the nerve agent on June 30 and tragically she died on July 8.

The MI5 and other intelligen­ce agencies now believe the poisoning was launched by Putin’s main intelligen­ce directorat­e, the GRU.

They are the same Moscow spooks who have been accused of hacking into the US National Democratic Committee’s emails, then using them to influence the American election. Up to 12 named Russian GRU officers have been indicted in America for having been involved in the alleged plot to manipulate the elections. TRAGIC Dawn

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