16 Facts About Novichok agent

Five Novichok agent variants are believed to have been adapted for military use.

The UK government determined that a novichok agent was used in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England in March 2018.

Novichok agent was the head of a counter-intelligence department and performed measurements outside the chemical weapons facilities to make sure that foreign spies could not detect any traces of production.

Novichok agent was referred to in a patent filed in 2008 for an organophosphorus poisoning treatment.

Rink was himself convicted in Russia for illegally selling a Novichok agent used to assassinate in 1995 a banker Ivan Kivelidi and his secretary.

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Procedure of retrospective detection of Novichok agent type poisons in victim's tissues has been proposed recently This method is a modification of the procedure that was developed earlier for identification of sarin poisoning.

Novichok agent was critically injured and took ten days to recover consciousness after the incident.

Novichok agent lost the ability to walk and was treated at a secret clinic in Leningrad for three months afterwards.

Novichok agent was used in 1995 to poison Russian banker Ivan Kivelidi, who died three days later in a hospital at the age of 46.

Novichok agent was only arrested in 2006 after he returned to Russia, believing that the ten-year old case was closed.

Felshtinsky and Pribylovsky claimed that Russia's security services, which had access to the chemical Novichok agent, had framed Khutsishvili for the murder, and that the security services had organised the murder on the orders of a senior Russian state official.

On 12 March 2018, the UK government said that a Novichok agent had been used in an attack in the English city of Salisbury on 4 March 2018 in an attempt to kill former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

On 3 April 2018, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory announced that it was "completely confident" that the agent used was Novichok, although they still did not know the "precise source" of the agent.

Novichok agent told his brother Matthew the nerve agent had been in a small perfume or aftershave bottle, which they had found in a park about nine days before spraying themselves with it.

Novichok agent's family suspected his illness was caused by a poison put into a cup of tea he drank before the flight.

Novichok agent was evacuated to the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany, the following day.