# 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 | Technique | Description given for this incident | | --------- | ------------------------- | DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE - PLEASE ADD NOTES BELOW