One Year Since the Skripals Were Poisoned, Russia Has Not Given Up its Confrontational Policy Toward the West

On March 4, 2018, a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, were found critically ill on a park bench in Salisbury, England. It was later determined that they had been poisoned by Novichok, a deadly nerve agent. The attack was linked to the Russian state.