Sergei Skripal was a colonel in Russia 's Military Intelligence Service ( GRU ) , who was convicted of high treason in 2006 and sentenced to 13 years in prison . According to the prosecution , he had spied for the United Kingdom 's MI6 as a double agent . In 2018 Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury , England . They both survived the poisoning , though three unrelated peoples were accidentally poisoned as well , one of them fatally
Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned
Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
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