“After 20 days in a coma, I woke to the news that we may have been poisoned. I still find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that both of us were attacked in a such a way.”

Yulia Skripal — May 23 2018

“We want Yulia Skripal to know that there was not a single day when the Russian foreign ministry and the Russian embassy in London did not try to arrange contact with her, with the chief aim of checking that she is not being held by force, that no one else is being passed off as her.”

Maria Zakharova — Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman

In her first  statement since discharged from hospital, Yulia Skripal said she wished to return to Russia some day. Follow us on Twitter: @Intel_Today

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Yulia told Reuters that her ‘life had been turned upside down’. She described the affair as “life-changing”.

She spent 20 days in a coma after the attack on 4 March, when the Skripals were found comatose on a park bench in Salisbury.

Ms Skripal spent six weeks in Salisbury District Hospital.

“I don’t want to describe the details, but the clinical treatment was invasive, painful and depressing.”

“Our recovery has been slow and extremely painful.”

Ms Skripal thanked the Russian embassy for its offer of assistance. But she said she and her father were “not ready to take it”.

Yulia Skripal says her world has ‘turned upside down’

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Russian spy poisoning: Yulia Skripal hopes to return to Russia — BBC

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