The UK has sanctioned Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, after an inquiry concluded that Vladimir Putin bears "moral responsibility" for the death of Dawn Sturgess.
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She was poisoned by Novichok, left in a discarded perfume bottle by the Russian agents who tried to kill former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter months earlier.
The inquiry branded Russia's president "astonishingly reckless" for deploying a nerve agent which could have killed many thousands.
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