Viktoria claims she was told that ex-Russian spy Sergei, 69, who spent weeks in hospital after being poisoned by the nerve agent, now has a pipe in his throat following a tracheostomy. It is not known if Viktoria’s claims about the phone call are true or if Yulia and her dad are really hiding in the UK. She is said to have told her cousin her father is under “security restrictions”, but is allowed to go for walks “outside the city”. She says Yulia, 36 told her: “I don’t see him at all because of lockdown” – and fears he could catch Covid-19. Both became critically ill after being poisoned when novichok was smeared on the door of Sergei’s home in Salisbury, Wilts, in March 2018.

Source: Daily Mirror December 01, 2020 21:57 UTC