That fatal encounter came weeks after Lugovoy and Kovtun had attempted to administer polonium-210 to Litvinenko, Owen says. Kovtun placed the polonium-210 into the teapot at the Pine Bar and did so with the intention of poisoning Mr. Litvinenko ingested the fatal dose whilst drinking tea from a teapot contaminated with polonium-210 in the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel in the West End of London in the afternoon of 1 November in the company of Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitri Kovtun. The report says he was poisoned twice - the first time coming just days after he and his family were granted British citizenship on Oct. Litvinenko was 44 when he died in 2006 of cardiac arrest brought on by acute radiation syndrome. The report recounts how the spy came to be in London: In 2000, six years before Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned, he arrived in the city with his wife and son, Anatoly, and made a declaration to a police officer: “I am a KGB officer and I’m asking for political asylum.” Responding to the report, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, “We regret that the purely criminal case has been politicized and has marred the entire atmosphere of bilateral relations.”Īs writer Will Storr told NPR in 2013, “This has been written about as the first-ever successful nuclear attack on the West by Russia. of all Russian intelligence operatives,” Litvinenko said, “whether from the FSB who murdered Sasha or from other Russian agencies based in the London embassy.” “I am calling immediately for the expulsion from the U.K. She also urged Prime Minister David Cameron to take action against Putin and Russia.

Putin of his murder, have been proved true in an English court.” Litvinenko’s widow, Marina, speaking Thursday outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, welcomed the report by saying, “The words my husband spoke on his deathbed, when he accused Mr. Patrushev, then head of the FSB, and also by President Putin. The report released today by Sir Robert Owen, chairman of the British inquiry into Litvinenko’s murder, concludes that “the FSB operation to kill Mr. But the British findings dismiss that possibility, along with the idea that the situation was some sort of elaborate ruse.

The two men who are accused of poisoning Litvinenko, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, have suggested he might have poisoned himself, either intentionally or accidentally. The Kremlin has long denied any involvement in Litvinenko’s death. Nearly 10 years after Kremlin critic and former spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with a rare radioactive element and died in London, a retired British judge has issued a report concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin “probably” approved a plan by Russia’s security service to kill the former FSB agent.

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