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Defector reveals how he He says KGB has hitlist lost five stone after attack of eight targets in the UK
Sergei and Yulia Skripal are still critically ill, poisoned by a highly toxic nerve agent, but their condition is reported to be stable.
Their doctors will know what agent was used and will be able to give them the best available antidotes. All nerve agents block essential messages from nerves to muscles, so muscles fail and do not contract and relax.
Treatment includes giving atropine for as long as there is nerve agent present and another antidote called oxime. This will help a return to normal muscle function. But oximes are not
POLICE appear to have ruled out a theory that Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a package sent through the mail.
A source close to the Royal Mail told us that his regular postman “hasn’t been contacted by the police. None of us have.
“And he is right as rain. He THE UK’S global role has diminished even more since Brexit.
Britain has 27 European allies that it has spent the last 18 months alienating. That doesn’t help your standing in the world.
Russia has done this before. If they have done it again, the issue is: has the UK’S reaction to previous incidents been strong enough to put them off?
Can Britain take action that’s strong enough to deter them again?
It may well have come into their calculation that the UK has isolated Karpichkov is on hit list always effective and, if there is a delay, may not work at all.
Only certain oximes work on specific nerve agents – hence the need to know exactly what was used.
Convulsions are common in nerve agent poisonings and are controlled by the anticonvulsant diazepam.
The effects will be widespread in the body. There may be a need to provide assisted breathing, regulate heart function and assist urine output.
Recovery after such a severe poisoning is complicated and prolonged – particularly if, as often happens, there is an effect on the brain.
It’s early days so we can only wish Sergei and Yulia well, knowing they will be getting the best treatment possible.
hasn’t suffered any illness at all.”
The source added: “I’m told Skripal hardly ever got any post, he was lucky if he got one letter a week. There was nothing recently with a Russian postmark.”
Another theory is that the nerve agent was unwittingly brought from Moscow by Yulia.
itself so there might be more chance of getting away with it.
After Litvinenko was poisoned it took ages for a public inquiry to be held. This may well have been seen as weakness.
Russia is like a mafia state. The UK needs to go after the senior people.
If you cause them personal pain by freezing assets and things like that, it would certainly help to put them off.
If it is Russia, there’s no way anyone could do this without Putin’s approval.
The fact they used a nerve agent shows they don’t fear the UK response.
If you were trying to get rid of someone but not be traced then that’s not how you would do it.
Part of the point is they WANT people to know they did it. Yulia strikes a pose in the sea Selfies at home Mirror show poisoning was suspected though never proved. In March 2007 Karpichkov fell ill again after a chemical was sprayed on his carpet.
Toxicology tests in New Zealand and London could not pinpoint the cause.
Now in the wake of the Skripal poisoning, Karpichkov says he was warned last month by a secret contact in the FSB – the modern-day KGB – to look out for e-cigarettes concealing nerve gas. He says: “We used burner phones. He said something bad was going to happen to me. I’m 59. But I’m not optimistic about seeing 60.”
He fears his latest death threat is the result of him posting the names of FSB agents on Latvian website Kompromat.lv
The Russian, who defected to Britain 20 years ago, spoke as police continued to investigate the attempted murder of Skripal, 66 – a former colonel in Russian military intelligence – and daughter Yulia, 33, found unconscious in a park in Salisbury last Sunday.
Chillingly, Karpichkov reveals: “I’ve been told the FSB Kolegia, a gathering of its high ranking officers, met the day after Skripal was attacked.
“Vladimir Putin was there and was
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