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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has warned his country’s enemies will “be served with poison”, as a former Russian double agent and his daughter fight for life in a British hospital after exposure to a deadly nerve agent.
The comments come as British investigators confirm a nerve agent was administered to Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia in the English town of Salisbury on Sunday in what they are treating as "attempted murder".
The pair remain in a critical condition in intensive care, while a police officer who was first on the scene has also fallen seriously ill.
Yulia Skripal, the daughter of former Russian Spy Sergei Skripal, remains in a critical condition. (AAP)
CCTV has been released of former spy Sergei Skripal shopping at a store in Salisbury. (AAP)
"This case is being treated as a major incident as attempted murder by administration of a nerve agent," Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said at a press conference.
He added the event poses a low risk to the rest of the community.
Putin was not addressing the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter at the time he made the explosive comments.
He said western sanctions for Moscow's annexation of Crimea and the insurgency in eastern Ukraine were part of "illegitimate and unfair" efforts to contain Russia, but added that "we will win in the long run".
"Those who serve us with poison will eventually swallow it and poison themselves," he continued.
He also went on to heap praise on US President Donald Trump, describing him as a great communicator, and again addressed his nation’s stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
In Salisbury following the poisoning, police kept residents away from an Italian restaurant and a pub in the city and cordoned off part of a business park about 14 kilometers away near the ancient stone monument of Stonehenge today.
Detectives appealed for information from anyone who visited either the Zizzi restaurant or the Bishop's Mill pub on the day of the attack.
Police set up a crime scene at Zizzi restaurant, near where Skripal and his daughter were found. (AAP)
Investigators in hazmat suits inside the Zizzi restaurant. (AAP)
Sergei Skripal. (AAP)
Bemused residents saw their usually placid town, famed for its 13th-century Gothic cathedral, turned into the center of a criminal probe with Cold War echoes.
With nerves still on edge, ambulances and emergency vehicles rushed to a building beside the Zizzi restaurant, which remains cordoned off.
Witness Toni Walker said emergency services escorted two women from the building. Police and ambulance services declined to comment and it wasn't immediately clear if the incident had anything to do with the ongoing investigation.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee, known as Cobra, to discuss the investigation, which is now in the hands of counter-terrorism police.
Police officers stand outside a Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury, near where Skripal fell ill. (AAP)
Moscow said the case was being used to fuel an "anti-Russian campaign" and further strain ties with Britain.
"What happened to Skripal has been immediately used to further incite an anti-Russian campaign in Western media," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's GRU military intelligence service, was convicted in 2006 of spying for Britain and imprisoned.
He was freed in 2010 as part of a widely publicised spy swap in which the US agreed to hand over 10 members of a Russian sleeper cell found operating in America in return for four Russians convicted of spying for the West.
The suspected poisoning prompted Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to say that if Russia were behind the incident then Britain may not participate "in the normal way" in this summer's soccer World Cup in Russia.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018...d-out-details-surrounding-russian-ex-spy-case
The comments come as British investigators confirm a nerve agent was administered to Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia in the English town of Salisbury on Sunday in what they are treating as "attempted murder".
The pair remain in a critical condition in intensive care, while a police officer who was first on the scene has also fallen seriously ill.
Yulia Skripal, the daughter of former Russian Spy Sergei Skripal, remains in a critical condition. (AAP)
CCTV has been released of former spy Sergei Skripal shopping at a store in Salisbury. (AAP)
"This case is being treated as a major incident as attempted murder by administration of a nerve agent," Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said at a press conference.
He added the event poses a low risk to the rest of the community.
Putin was not addressing the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter at the time he made the explosive comments.
He said western sanctions for Moscow's annexation of Crimea and the insurgency in eastern Ukraine were part of "illegitimate and unfair" efforts to contain Russia, but added that "we will win in the long run".
"Those who serve us with poison will eventually swallow it and poison themselves," he continued.
He also went on to heap praise on US President Donald Trump, describing him as a great communicator, and again addressed his nation’s stockpiling of nuclear weapons.
In Salisbury following the poisoning, police kept residents away from an Italian restaurant and a pub in the city and cordoned off part of a business park about 14 kilometers away near the ancient stone monument of Stonehenge today.
Detectives appealed for information from anyone who visited either the Zizzi restaurant or the Bishop's Mill pub on the day of the attack.
Police set up a crime scene at Zizzi restaurant, near where Skripal and his daughter were found. (AAP)
Investigators in hazmat suits inside the Zizzi restaurant. (AAP)
Sergei Skripal. (AAP)
Bemused residents saw their usually placid town, famed for its 13th-century Gothic cathedral, turned into the center of a criminal probe with Cold War echoes.
With nerves still on edge, ambulances and emergency vehicles rushed to a building beside the Zizzi restaurant, which remains cordoned off.
Witness Toni Walker said emergency services escorted two women from the building. Police and ambulance services declined to comment and it wasn't immediately clear if the incident had anything to do with the ongoing investigation.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee, known as Cobra, to discuss the investigation, which is now in the hands of counter-terrorism police.
Police officers stand outside a Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury, near where Skripal fell ill. (AAP)
Moscow said the case was being used to fuel an "anti-Russian campaign" and further strain ties with Britain.
"What happened to Skripal has been immediately used to further incite an anti-Russian campaign in Western media," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
Skripal, a former colonel in Russia's GRU military intelligence service, was convicted in 2006 of spying for Britain and imprisoned.
He was freed in 2010 as part of a widely publicised spy swap in which the US agreed to hand over 10 members of a Russian sleeper cell found operating in America in return for four Russians convicted of spying for the West.
The suspected poisoning prompted Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to say that if Russia were behind the incident then Britain may not participate "in the normal way" in this summer's soccer World Cup in Russia.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018...d-out-details-surrounding-russian-ex-spy-case
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