Ex-Spy's Daughter Says She Is 'Lucky To Be Alive'

The Guardian: Yulia Skripal: 'We are so lucky to have survived assassination attempt'

Daughter of double agent says she would like to return to Russia ‘in the longer term’

Yulia Skripal has said she wishes to return to Russia “in the longer term” despite the nerve agent attack on her and her father Sergei, which she described as life-changing.

In her first appearance since being discharged from hospital, Yulia said that she had flown to London on 3 March to visit her father, something she had done regularly in the past. The Skripals were found a day later in a comatose condition on a park bench in the centre of Salisbury.

“After 20 days in a coma, I woke to the news that we had both been poisoned,” she said. “I still find it hard to come to terms that both of us were attacked. We are so lucky to both have survived this attempted assassination.

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WNU Editor: Both of them are lucky to be alive.

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