UK Launches Probe Into 14 Other Suspected Russian Assassinations

Former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, once released from jail, was poisioned by a nerve agent called 'Novichok' which was developed by the now-defunct Soviet Union. (Misha Japaridze/AP)

By    |   Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:15 PM EDT ET

U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly advised British authorities as many as 14 U.K. deaths in recent years previously attributed to natural causes might in fact be assassinations linked to Russia.

The 14 suspicious deaths are in addition to the 2006 assassination of Putin rival Alexander Litvinenko, whose tea was laced with radioactive polonium-210 at the Millennium Hotel in London, and the March 4 attack on former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

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As many as 14 U.K. deaths in recent years previously attributed to natural causes might in fact be assassinations linked to Russia, U.S. intelligence officials have advised British authorities, Newmax's David A. Patten reports.
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