According to the report, the process includes buying equipment and finalizing plans for how and where troops would be sent. “Officials are confident that a peace deal appears closer than ever before as U.

Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the entire GRU military intelligence agency, which was singled out in a UK public inquiry into the 2018 death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.

Skripal and his adult daughter, Yulia, were left critically ill after touching their front doorknob, which was dabbed with the poison.

The British mother-of-three sprayed herself with what she thought was a bottle of perfume, but turned out to be the toxic, Russian chemical Novichok.

Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the entire GRU military intelligence agency that was singled out in a UK public inquiry into the 2018 death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.

British authorities have blamed Russia for the attack on Skripal, who 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 home.