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The United States said Wednesday it has concluded that Russia used chemical or biological weapons, in violation of international law, during an attack on a former Soviet spy and his daughter in England earlier this year.
In response, the administration ordered new sanctions on Moscow.
“Following the use of a ‘Novichok’ nerve agent in an attempt to assassinate U.K. citizen Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal,” the United States has determined that the Russian government “used lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals,” the State Department said in a statement.
Washington had already expelled about 60 Russian diplomats in retaliation for the Skripal attack.
