Posted on 04/10/2018 7:11:53 AM PDT by mac_truck
SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Yulia Skripal has left hospital more than five weeks after she and her father, a former Russian spy, were poisoned with a nerve agent in an attack that has sparked one of the biggest crises in the West’s relations with the Kremlin since the Cold War.
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The Skripals were in a critical condition for weeks and doctors at one point feared, even if they survived, they might have suffered brain damage. But the Skripals’ health since then has begun to improve rapidly.
Yulia, 33, has been discharged from Salisbury District Hospital, Christine Blanshard, medical director of the hospital, told reporters on Tuesday and her father could be discharged in due course.
“We have now discharged Yulia,” Blanshard said. “This is not the end of her treatment, but marks a significant milestone.”
“Her father has also made good progress,” Blanshard said. “ “Although he is recovering more slowly than Yulia, we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course.”
Yulia has been taken to a secure location, the BBC said. The Sunday Times reported that Britain was considering giving the Skripals new identities and a fresh life in the United States to protect them from further attacks.
Russia said it would consider any secret resettlement of the Skripals as an abduction of its citizens.
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I suppose they need a fresh life in the U.S. because the U.K. isn’t up to protecting them.
Spy poisoning: why Putin may have engineered gruesome calling card
Moscow’s goal is to demonstrate the UK’s weakness and isolation and to drive a wedge between us and other countries. The Kremlin understands how to make these sorts of interventions at just below the level that will trigger a serious collective reaction against them.”
If May fails to react adequately, she would appear weak. If she tries to fight back against Russia, she would discover the limits of collective solidarity, the adviser suggested.
Author Boris Akunin, suggested Putin was betting on a British retaliation that would drive wealthy and prominent Russians out of London. The community of Russian émigrés (and families of wealthy businessmen and officials) was “one of the weak points of the regime”, he wrote, and forcing them out would be “useful and beneficial” for Putin.
” The Sunday Times reported that Britain was considering giving the Skripals new identities and a fresh life in the United States to protect them from further attacks. “
What if we don’t want them ? Why can’t Britain provide them new identities and a fresh life ?
I thought we fought a war and declared we were no longer a colony of Britain.
Weren’t the Russians better at actually killing people before?
Not to mention that Yulia Skripal herself is a Russian citizen.
The notion that she can be forced to live under an assumed name in a foreign country is absurd.
[ Weren’t the Russians better at actually killing people before? ]
May... I Mean Putin needs to fire his crappy MI6... errr I mean FSB agents... they suck...
If it were a nerve agent, these alleged victims would have dropped very soon after exposure. People in the vicinity would have been killed. It would have taken a massive decontamination operation in the area. Instead, we find that these people went for a meal after exposure. OK...
What are the treaty obligations when a country is accused of a violation?
Same questions re: Syria.
Last night on Tucker, Senator Wicker impugned Carlson for asking whether the Syria attack was real: “that’s the question Putin is asking also”. Reminds me of a few of the posters in this forum. Wicker is a worthless, scheming POS for saying that to Tucker. Whatever happened to open dialog??
Who’s suggesting that she will be ‘forced’ todo anything?
Blanshard gave further insight into how the nerve agent attacked the two patients and the treatment they received. “In the four weeks since the incident in the city centre, both have received round-the-clock care from our clinicians, who have been able to draw on advice and support from world-leading experts in the field,” she said.
“Nerve agents work by attaching themselves to the particular enzymes in the body, which then stop the nerves from functioning. This results in symptoms such as sickness and hallucinations. Our job in treating the patients is to stabilise them, ensuring that they can breathe and blood can continue to circulate.
“We then need to use a variety of different drugs to support the patients until they could create more enzymes to replace those affected by the poisoning. We also use specialised decontamination techniques to remove any residual toxins. “Both patients have been responding exceptionally well to the treatment we’ve been providing, but equally both patients are at different stages of their recovery.”
For obvious reasons, recent clinical experience worldwide of treating human (as distinct from laboratory) victims of this sort of stuff must be limited or non-existent. So perhaps before this there were no precedents for the treatments used, so it's not entirely beyond belief that they should work better than anybody expected, and the fact that they did doesn't make it any less likely that it was indeed novichok..
Her family members have also been denied access to Yulia...her cousin's visa application was turned down by the UK.
The incompetent Tory government is desperate to control the narrative of this unraveling story, but they can't do so indefinitely.
The Russian government has 'suggested' all sorts of things about this case, many of them mutually contradictory.
Spare me your political fantasies...the incompetent British are the ones who caught lying.
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