# Incident I00045: Skripal

* **Summary:** On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the UK's intelligence services, and his daughter Yulia Skripal were poisoned in Salisbury, England, with a Novichok nerve agent known as A-234, according to official UK sources and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

* **incident type**: incident

* **Year started:** 2018

* **Countries:** Russia , UK

* **Found via:** 

* **Date added:** 2019-03-20
 

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