Sentences with phrase «military grade nerve»

Former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were exposed to military grade nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury.

Instead they have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent in Europe with sarcasm, contempt and defiance.

Mr Speaker, on Monday I set out that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a Novichok: a military grade nerve agent developed by Russia.

That was a military grade nerve agent - a Novichok.

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British authorities say the pair have been critically ill since the attack by a Soviet - designed, military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

The word «culpable» was in itself carefully chosen, Glees said, because it could mean one of the two things: That Putin did not take proper care of his military - grade Novichok nerve agent and it fell into the wrong hands, or that he willfully weaponised it on foreign soil.

«This was a reckless attempt by the [Russian] government to murder a British citizen and his daughter on British soil with a military - grade nerve agent.

Russia has already retaliated in kind against Britain for ejecting 23 diplomats over the first known use of a military - grade nerve agent on European soil since World War Two.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an international watchdog group, has confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned using a military - grade nerve agent called Novichok.

With that act of madcap aggression, unleashing a military - grade nerve agent in a...

Some militaries made very high grade nerve agents during the Cold War, such as the USSR and the United States.

As militaries have had both the highest and lowest grade of nerve agent, the term «military grade» is redundant.

However, militaries have made and used much lower - grade nerve agents, such as the very poor quality Sarin that Saddam Hussein made and used against both civilian and military targets in the Iran - Iraq war.

Former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a military - grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia, Theresa May has told MPs.

Former double agent Sergei Skripal is discharged from hospital more than two months after he and his daughter were poisoned with a military - grade nerve agent.

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday that Russia was «highly likely» behind last week's poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, with a military - grade nerve agent.

May said that the substance used in the poisoning was identified as a Novichok class, military - grade nerve agent developed in Russia.

This use of a military - grade nerve agent, of a type developed by Russia, constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the second world war.

Or conceivably, the Russian government could have lost control of a military - grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others.

White House officials called the nerve agent used against the Skripals «military grade,» but declined to elaborate on the substance used.

Theresa May's government has concluded that Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a Moscow - made, military - grade nerve agent, Novichok.