Novichok victim Yulia Skripal ‘intends to return to Russia soon’ even after two more poisoned with same nerve agent in Amesbury
The unverified claims - which appeared in Russian newspaper MK - come as two Brits fight for life after being struck down by Novichok near where Yulia and her ex-KGB colonel dad Sergei were poisoned
YULIA Skripal has reportedly decided to move back to Russia, it was sensationally claimed last night.
The unverified claims - which appeared in Russian newspaper MK - come as two Brits fight for life after being struck down by Novichok near where Yulia and her ex-KGB colonel dad Sergei were poisoned.
The report claims Yulia called a woman named Diana who is renovating her flat in Moscow - and vowed “she was doing well and that she was due to come to Russia soon”.
Diana claims Yulia als “gave me a special order” not to allow her own cousin Viktoria Skripal, 45, access to her flat.
The report further claimed that Yulia has met a close Russian friend called Gulnara in London.
Gulnara was interviewed and exonerated by Scotland Yard after she brought a package of buckwheat from Russia to London around the time the Skripals were poisoned.
She has been “in constant touch” with Stepan Vikeev, 30, Yulia’s mysterious boyfriend who has vanished since the poisoning, it was claimed.
Vikeev was reported to have had connections to the FSB security service.
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It is unclear from MK if Yulia has been in direct contact with Vikeev since the poisoning.
Earlier today scientists from Britain's leading chemical weapons lab confirmed that mum-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her boyfriend Charlie Rowley, 45, were poisoned by Novichok.
Security chiefs suspect the pair - who live near Salisbury - may have stumbled across the ‘method of delivery’ used by Russian assassins who tried to kill Yulia and Sergei.
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