Ten months after the poisoning of former double agent Sergej Skripal in the UK, the EU has imposed sanctions on the leadership of the Russian military intelligence service GRU.
The chief and the deputy head of the secret service can no longer enter the EU, and their assets in Europe are frozen, as the EU states decided today. The two agents who reportedly committed the attack in March 2018 were also placed on the EU sanctions list.
The four Russian intelligence officials were sanctioned for „possessing, transporting and using a poisonous nerve gas“ at the attack in Salisbury, England. The former Russian double agent Skripal and his daughter Julia were then exposed to the developed in the Soviet Union nerve drug Nowitschok. Both barely escaped death.
