Richard
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Theresa may akitoa taarifa za kijasusi Bungeni leo
Waziri mkuu wa Uingereza Theresa May leo mchana amewataja raia wawili wa Russia ambao wanatuhumiwa kujaribu kumuua aliekuwa jasusi mwezao Sergei Skripal mtoto wake wa kike Yulia na kachero wa polisi Nick Bailey kutoka Wiltshire aliekuwa akichunguza tukio hilo.
Akitoa taarifa yake kwa bunge la nchi hiyo Theresa May alisema kwamba vyombo vya kijasusi vya Uingereza vimewagundua raia hao wawili ni maofisa ujasusi kutoka kitengo cha jeshi maalum kwa ujasusi wa nje GRU.
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The two men identified as suspects in the Salisbury nerve agent attack are officers Russia's military intelligence agency, Theresa May has confirmed.
MPs gasped in the House of Commons as the Prime Minister revealed British intelligence agencies believe the two Russian Nationals named by the Metropolitan Police this morning were officers of the GRU.
In an emergency statement to the House of Commons, she said "this was not a rogue operation" and would "almost certainly" have been approved at a "senior level of the Russian state".
Mrs May said: "The actions of the GRU are a threat to all our allies and all our citizens.
"On the basis of what we have learnt in the Salisbury investigation and what we know about this organisation more broadly, we must now step up our collective efforts specifically against the GRU.
"We are increasing our understanding of what the GRU is doing in our countries, shining a light on their activities, exposing their methods and sharing them with our allies, just as we have done with Salisbury.
"Together with our allies we will deploy the full range of tools from across our national security apparatus in order to counter the threat posed by the GRU."
The government has issued an Interpol 'red notice' and European arrest warrant in a bid to snare the pair if they attempt to travel outside of Russia.
Mrs May also revealed the scale of the police investigation into the poisoning, with some 250 detectives having been involved in the investigation, which examined 11,000 hours of CCTV footage and took 1,400 statements.
Responding to the Prime Minister's statement, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Russia must give a "full account of how this nerve agent came to be used in the UK."
It comes after the Metropolitan Police confirmed two Russian Nationals had been identified as suspects in the poisoning.
Police and prosecutors said there is sufficient evidence to charge Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with conspiring to murder Sergei Skripal and attempting to murder the ex-Russian spy, his daughter Yulia and Wiltshire Police detective sergeant Nick Bailey.
Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said the two suspects are aged around 40 and it is likely they were travelling under aliases. Petrov and Boshirov are not their real names.
Prosecutors will not be applying to Russia for the extradition of the two men, but a European Arrest Warrant has been obtained.
Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in March by the nerve agent Novichok. Detectives believe the front door of Mr Skripal's Salisbury home was contaminated with the military-grade substance on Sunday March 4.
Mr Basu said CCTV shows the two suspects in the vicinity of the property on that date. Hours later, the men left the UK on a flight from Heathrow to Moscow - two days after they had arrived at Gatwick.
Mr Basu said: "We have no evidence that they re-entered the UK after that date."
The announcement on Wednesday relates to the first incident, but Mr Basu confirmed that officers have now linked the attack on the Skripals to events in Amesbury less than four months later.
In the second incident, Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 48, were exposed to the same nerve agent used in Salisbury. Ms Sturgess died in hospital in July, just over a week after the pair fell ill.
Two men seen on CCTV camera scouring around Salisbury town.
Mr Basu said: "We do not believe Dawn and Charlie were deliberately targeted, but became victims as a result of the recklessness in which such a toxic nerve agent was disposed of.
"We know that Novichok was applied to the Skripals' front door in an area that is accessible to the public, which also endangered the lives of members of the public and emergency service responders."
Police released an image of a perfume bottle recovered from Mr Rowley's home which is thought to have contained Novichok.
He said police continue to liaise with the CPS regarding the poisoning of Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley.
