Putin bears ‘moral responsibility’ for death of Dawn Sturgess

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Russian President Vladimir Putin was “astonishingly reckless” and bears “moral responsibility” for the nerve agent death of Dawn Sturgess, an independent inquiry has concluded.Ms Sturgess, 44, died after being exposed to the chemical weapon known as Novichok, which was left in a discarded perfume bottle in Amesbury, Wiltshire, in July 2018.

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00:00So, in summary, the conclusion of the report is that Dawn Sturgis died an innocent victim

00:08of an attempt by officers of a Russian state organization

00:13to conduct an assassination on the streets of Salisbury using a highly toxic nerve agent.

00:23The conduct of Petrov and Bosherov and their GRU superiors

00:29and those who authorized the mission, up to and including, as I found, President Putin,

00:38that conduct was astonishingly reckless.

00:42There is a direct causal link between the actions of all those individuals

00:48and Dawn Sturgis' death, and they, and only they, bear moral responsibility for it.

00:59So, let's move forward.

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