The Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the EU confirmed a new sanction regime due to the Skripals’ case, as Rikard Jozwiak, Radio Liberty reporter, wrote on Twitter.
Eu ambassadors today approved a new eu sanctions regime on chemical weapons in the wake of #Salisbury #Skripal but no listings yet. #Russia
— Rikard Jozwiak (@RikardJozwiak) September 26, 2018
As we reported the Crown Prosecution Service of the U.K. called the names of the suspects in the poisoning of the ex-GRU officer Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The police suspect Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Bashirov. They are accused of the poisoning of Skripals, a police officer who participated in the investigation and two citizens of the U.K. poisoned in Amesbury.
Later it was reported that there could be four more suspects in the Skripals case - apart from Aleksandr Petrov and Ruslan Boshyrov, whose names were revealed by the British counter-intelligence.
As it was reported Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in British Salisbury. Later, Theresa May, British PM, stated that Russia was responsible for that, and the investigation has confirmed the use of the Novichok nerve agent, which is produced in Russia.