CHEMICAL WEAPONS
Russia has stockpiles of nerve agent, says Boris Johnson
London — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Sunday that Russia had been stockpiling the nerve agent used to poison a Russian former double agent in the UK and had been investigating how such weapons could be used in assassinations. Britain has said Russia used the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok to attack Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the first known offensive use of such a weapon on European soil since the Second World War. "We actually have evidence within the last 10 years that Russia has not only been investigating the delivery of nerve agents for the purposes of assassination, but has also been creating and stockpiling Novichok," Johnson said on BBC. Britain and Russia have both expelled 23 diplomats over the attack as relations between the two countries crash to a post-Cold War low. Skripal, a former colonel in the Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of Russian agents to Britain, and his daughter are fighting for their lives after they wer...
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