Russian President Vladimir Putin has been found “morally responsible” for the 2018 death of an English woman by a British government inquiry.

In June 2018, Dawn Sturgess, 44, received a perfume bottle from her partner, Charlie Rowley, who had found it in a charity bin. However, instead of Nina Ricci perfume, the bottle contained Novichok, a deadly nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union. Sturgess sprayed the bottle on her wrists and died shortly after.

The inquiry found that the bottle was intended to be used in the failed assassination of a former Russian spy named Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, which happened months earlier.

“I have concluded that the operation to assassinate Sergei Skripal must have been authorised at the highest level, by Preside

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