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But why the hell did they do it?

• mprovost 6y ago
  Sergei Skripal was a colonel in the GRU who was also a spy for MI6 and who moved to the UK as part of a prisoner swap. Apparently he hadn't quite retired and was still briefing western intelligence services just before his poisoning. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/14/sergei-skripal-briefed-european-intelligence-services-reports-say https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/14/sergei-skrip...
  • Udik 6y ago
    > Apparently he hadn't quite retired and was still briefing western intelligence services He had stopped been a Russian agent in 2004. Then, after being released from prison and moving to the UK, he had 8 years to brief the UK services about everything he knew. What kind of briefing could he do, exactly? Note that if you read carefully the article that you linked, it says repeatedly that none of Skripal's activity was new, or uncommon, or important. Despite the subheader saying "may offer motive for poisoning" the various experts mentioned in the article repeatedly say that those "neither explained nor justified the nerve agent attack", "dismissed them as a likely motive for the poisoning attack".