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fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts) Wed Apr 25, 2018, 11:06 AM Apr 2018

Russian Novichok Developer Hospitalized Following Car Accident

Source: The Moscow Times

April 25 2018 - 10:04

One of the developers of a military-grade nerve agent that Britain says was used to poison a former double agent has reportedly been hospitalized after being hit by a car.

Vladimir Uglev was one of the Soviet scientists involved in the development of a Novichok-class lethal agent that London says almost killed ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia last month.

Russia denies any involvement and accuses Britain of fabricating the incident to stoke anti-Russia hysteria. The poisoning set off a series of mutual diplomatic expulsions.

The retired Soviet scientist told The Bell on Wednesday he had been hit while crossing the street close to his home near the Black Sea resort town of Anapa on Tuesday. Uglev says he was hospitalized with head and foot injuries and is recovering.

Read more: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/novichok-scientist-hit-by-car-in-russia-61260

Sure, it was just an accident. The only 'accident' was that he didn't die from his injuries.

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Russian Novichok Developer Hospitalized Following Car Accident (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Apr 2018 OP

Accident prone bunch, those Russian operatives. SoFlaDem Apr 2018 #1

Also: It's very easy to fall out of russian windows. DetlefK Apr 2018 #4

They seem to fall on bullets a lot too. n/t fleur-de-lisa Apr 2018 #6

Boy howdy, I've never seen anything like it. trof Apr 2018 #8

Completely accidental dalton99a Apr 2018 #2

He must live on the ground floor More_Cowbell Apr 2018 #3

Would love to see the forensics - details - just the facts, maam, just asiliveandbreathe Apr 2018 #5

Payback. He didn't make a deadly enough poison. WhiteTara Apr 2018 #7

Thats the after - heres the before FreepFryer Apr 2018 #9

SoFlaDem

(98 posts)

1. Accident prone bunch, those Russian operatives.

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 11:09 AM

Apr 2018

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

4. Also: It's very easy to fall out of russian windows.

Reply to SoFlaDem (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 11:40 AM

Apr 2018

Just this month a russian journalist fell out of a window and died.

The lawyer for Sergej Magnitsky (Magnitsky had uncovered a tax-fraud scheme of corrupt russian law-enforcement and was then framed by them for that very scheme) fell out of his window when workers installed his new bathtub.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)

6. They seem to fall on bullets a lot too. n/t

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 11:50 AM

Apr 2018

trof

(54,256 posts)

8. Boy howdy, I've never seen anything like it.

Reply to SoFlaDem (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 07:26 PM

Apr 2018

I'd hate to be their life insurance company.
Can they even GET life insurance?

dalton99a

(81,635 posts)

2. Completely accidental

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 11:15 AM

Apr 2018

and well timed

More_Cowbell

(2,191 posts)

3. He must live on the ground floor

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 11:29 AM

Apr 2018

So no "accidental falls" for him.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)

5. Would love to see the forensics - details - just the facts, maam, just

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 11:49 AM

Apr 2018

the facts....seriously - what time of day, how much traffic, especially this time of year..Anapa - population approx.. 60,000 - blame it on tourists???? -

Anapa, like the other Black Sea coast resorts, has a superb sunny summer climate. Anapa has beautiful, mostly sandy beaches. However, Anapa seldom attracts tourists from outside Russia due to its modest infrastructure and its inconvenient accessibility from Western Europe...

From fleur-de-lisa

"Sure, it was just an accident. The only 'accident' was that he didn't die from his injuries."

Couldn't have said it better

WhiteTara

(29,728 posts)

7. Payback. He didn't make a deadly enough poison.

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 12:04 PM

Apr 2018

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)

9. Thats the after - heres the before

Reply to fleur-de-lisa (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2018, 07:32 PM

Apr 2018

MOSCOW — During the Cold War, Soviet scientists at a secret, high-security lab worked frantically to counter the latest US chemical weapons.

More than 40 years later, the nerve agent they developed apparently turned up in a quiet English town, where it nearly killed a former Russian spy and his daughter, according to one of the main researchers who worked at the lab.

Vladimir Uglev said he was the scientist who in 1975 first synthesized A-234, an odorless liquid deadlier than any other chemical weapons that existed at the time.

‘‘Hundreds of thousands could have been killed with what I produced,’’ the 71-year-old former researcher said in an interview.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2018/04/23/russian-says-secret-cold-war-lab-developed-poison-used-england/zoJIAFi7msQGsCo8Lq7niL/story.html

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