The poisonous substance, which was poisoned by Sergei and Julia Skripal, had a "liquid form". This is reported on April 17 Sky News. According to the source, traces of "a small number of" Newcomer "found in the house of Skripal in Wiltshire. At the Salisbury cemetery, where the wife and son of the ex-GRU officer are buried, traces of toxic agents were not found. Nevertheless, the Ministry of the Environment, Food and Agriculture of the UK announced that it is planned to conduct a large-scale operation to clean up Salisbury to destroy potentially dangerous remnants of poison and make the city's territory safe for residents and tourists. At the same time, one of the founders of the newcomer, Vil Mirzayanov, had previously told Kommersant that in the conditions of humidity the "Novice" could only be used by an idiot, since it "can be stable only in the absence of moisture and humidity". Former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter were hospitalized on 4 March in the English town of Salisbury after interacting with an unknown poisonous substance. Following this, British Prime Minister Teresa May said that they were poisoned by a neuro-paralytic substance such as "Novice", developed in Russia. Moscow rejected these accusations, recalling that all Russian chemical weapons were destroyed in 2017 under the control of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.