DW: US to impose sanctions on Russia over Skripal poisoning
The United States has said Russia violated international law by using a chemical weapon. Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in March.
The United States will imposed sanctions on Russia for using a "lethal" nerve agent against a former Russian double agent and his daughter in Britain, the State Department said Wednesday.
State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said Russia used “a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate UK citizen Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal” in southern English city of Salisbury in March.
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