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Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018, in an "astonishingly reckless" act that led to the death of an innocent woman, a UK public inquiry concluded on Thursday.

Skripal was found along with his daughter, Yulia, slumped unconscious on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury in March 2018 after Novichok was applied to the front door handle of his nearby home.

About four months later, mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died from exposure to the poison after her partner found a counterfeit perfume bottle which Russian spies had used to smuggle the military-grade nerve agent into the country, the inquiry said.

In his conclusions, the chair, former UK Supreme Court judge Anthony Hughes, said he was certain a team of GRU military intelligence officers had carried out the murder attempt on Skripal, who recovered along with his daughter. Skripal sold Russian secrets to Britain and moved there after a 2010 spy swap.

Hughes said Putin and Russian intelligence officers "bear moral responsibility" for the death of Sturgess.

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