Russian spy: Highly likely Moscow behind attack, says Theresa May

Previous covert agent Sergei Skripal and his girl were harmed by a military-review nerve specialist of a sort created by Russia, Theresa May has told MPs. 

The PM said it was "very likely" Russia was in charge of the Salisbury assault. 

The Foreign Office summoned Russia's represetative to give a clarification. 

Mrs May said if there is no "trustworthy reaction" before the finish of Tuesday, the UK would close there has been an "unlawful utilization of power" by Moscow. 

The concoction utilized as a part of the assault, the PM stated, has been recognized as one of a gathering of nerve specialists known as Novichok. 

Mrs May stated: "Either this was an immediate activity by the Russian state against our nation, or the Russian government lost control of its possibly disastrously harming nerve specialist and enabled it to get under the control of others." 

She said Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson had told the diplomat Moscow must give "full and finish revelation" of the Novichok program to universal body the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. 

Mrs May said the UK must stand prepared to take considerably more broad measures, and these future set out in the Commons on Wednesday ought to there be no sufficient clarification from Russia. 

Resigned military knowledge officer Mr Skripal, 66, and his little girl, Yulia, 33, were discovered drooped on a seat in Salisbury downtown area on Sunday 4 March. They stay in a basic however stable condition in healing facility. 

Det Sgt Nick Bailey, who fell sick going to the combine, remains truly sick, yet has been conversing with his family. 

Mr Skripal was indicted by the Russian administration of passing insider facts to MI6 in 2004, however given asylum in the UK in 2010 as a component of a "spy swap". 

Home Secretary Amber Rudd will seat a gathering of the administration crisis board of trustees Cobra on Tuesday to talk about the most recent advancements for the situation. 

What are Novichok operators? 

The name signifies "newcomer" in Russian, and applies to a gathering of cutting edge nerve specialists created in mystery by the Soviet Union in the 1980s 

One concoction - called A-230 - is supposedly five to eight times more lethal than VX nerve specialist, which can kill a man inside minutes 

Some are fluids, others are thought to exist in strong shape. 

Some are accounted for to be "paired weapons", which means they are normally put away as two less dangerous chemicals which when blended, respond to deliver the more poisonous specialist 

One variation was purportedly endorsed for use by the Russian military as a substance weapon 

Intended to escape location by universal investigators, their reality was uncovered by deserters