Vladimir Putin could target UK again with novichok-style attack, warns Grant Shapps
Vladimir Putin could target the UK with another novichok-style poisoning attempt, Britain’s defence secretary has warned.
Grant Shapps compared the threat Mr Putin poses to that of Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Mr Shapps, along with a number of Western leaders, blamed the Kremlin for the recent death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony on 16 February.
Mr Shapps: “Putin has Navalny’s blood on his hands. Navalny should never have been in prison. His crime was standing up to an autocratic and now dictatorial Putin, who has a long history of bumping off his opponents.
