Overview
- The final report finds a team of GRU officers carried out the operation, naming three officers and stating two executed the attack.
- Commission chair Anthony Hughes concludes approval came from the highest level and says the risk to bystanders was completely foreseeable.
- Investigators say the same disguised perfume bottle likely contaminated Skripal’s door handle before being recklessly discarded.
- Dawn Sturgess died after spraying the bottle in July 2018, and the report characterizes her death as unnecessary and arbitrary.
- In response, the UK summoned Russian ambassador Andrei Kelin and announced sanctions on the entire GRU.