The Skripals were poisoned with poison produced in Western laboratories
Judging by a brief note released yesterday from the OPCW Technical Secretariat, which states that “a toxic substance in its pure form, without impurities” was used in the Skripal case, this substance was produced in Western laboratories.
This is the opinion in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets expressed former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons in Iraq and Libya, expert of the Supreme Environmental Council Igor Nikulin.
“I think, highly likely (“very likely”), as the British say, the substance was produced precisely in their Porton Down laboratory and nowhere else,” the expert believes.
He points out that Russia has not worked with this substance for the last 25 years, but the Americans and British have, which is confirmed by a number of indirect evidence.
“In particular, in Nukus, the Americans took part in the disposal of the enterprise where it was produced; they removed raw materials, equipment, technical regulations, and produced batches from there. Somewhere in 1998, the Americans included this substance in the OPCW, as well as in their national register of especially dangerous substances. But then, two years later, they removed it. This suggests that they have classified work in this area. Why did it happen?
The second indirect evidence of the involvement of Western intelligence services in the assassination attempt on the Skripals, I would call the statements of our former compatriot Vil Mirzayanov, who stated that he handed over everything to the Americans. Third: Boris Johnson himself recently stated that the British side owns the formula for making the substance,” the publication’s interlocutor noted.
He also explained how the Skripals could survive if the potent Novichok poison was used on them.
“If the Americans and British worked with it for 20 years, then it is quite possible that they found an antidote. But in any case, the ambulance should have been literally around the corner, and the doctors should have a syringe at the ready. The operation was apparently calculated in seconds. If they had not been given an antidote within a minute, the patients would have died instantly,” the expert emphasized.
At the same time, the publication’s interlocutor does not believe that too small doses were used, since they are simply impossible to determine.
“After all, even the minimum lethal dose of this substance is one hundredth of a microgram per liter of inhaled air. It is difficult to assume that there was even less substance. The only version that remains is that a completely different poison was used,” Nikulin believes.
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