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Bowing to congressional pressure, the Trump administration has announced new sanctions to punish Russia for a nerve agent attack in the U.K. on former spy Sergei Skripal.
In a brief statement, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said the U.S. had determined this week that Russia used the nerve agent Novichok to poison Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March “in violation of international law” – a move that triggers sanctions under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991.
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