The private American intelligence-analytical company Stratfor noted that the attempted death of Russian spy-defector Sergei Skripal was not revenge from the Russian Federation, as many in the West. "A week after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, British Prime Minister Teresa Mei told the parliament that, as the investigators had established, the former spy was poisoned with a neuro-paralytic substance such as" Novice ". Given the use of a military chemical associated with Russian weapons development laboratories, the trail clearly leads to Moscow, "quotes Scott Stewart, the vice president of Stratfor's tactical analysis department, Apostrophe,. He recalled that it took London 10 years to officially accuse the Kremlin of poisoning former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, with British Prime Minister Therese May needing just over a week to officially accuse Russia of attacking Skripal. "London's rapid reaction was probably part of the plan: it is clear that Russia wanted the world to know who was behind this assassination attempt. Although many suggested that the attack was caused by a desire for revenge (and, perhaps, it played a role), the Kremlin probably had a more relevant motive for organizing poisoning, "the expert believes.. Stewart recalled that according to press reports, MI6 recruited Skripal in the early 1990s, perhaps at a time when he was a GRU officer in Spain, then he spied on the British until he was arrested in 2004. "According to The Independent, he resigned from the GRU in 1999 and took up his post in the Russian Foreign Ministry - another primary goal of British intelligence - before resigning from government and going into business in 2003. He was arrested as a result of a large-scale operation in 2004 and was convicted in 2006. Scripal was sentenced to 13 years in prison for treason, in part, for allegedly handing over GRU officers to his British curators, "wrote a member of Stratfor. He believes that a relatively small prison term is an interesting fact in the case of Skripal. "In the past, many Russian spies caught spying on the US or other powers were sentenced to death. For example, Major General Dmitry Polyakov, also a member of the GRU, was executed in 1988 after being convicted of spying for the United States (he was exposed by a CIA officer, Aldrich Ames, who was spying on Russia), "Stewart recalled.. The representative of the company considers unfounded rumors that Skripal is somehow connected with the recent work of the former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, which was a very controversial dossier, which talked about the cooperation between the participants in the presidential campaign of Donald Trump and the Kremlin. "Skripal was unlikely to be actively involved in any espionage work against Russia, because of which he could be under the Kremlin's sight. So, if the treachery of Skripal was considered serious enough ten years ago to justify his death today, why did the Russians simply not liquidate him in 2006? Even if they decided to keep him for the future exchange of spies (under which he eventually ended up), why did not he receive a much more severe punishment? "- he stressed. "Thirteen years seem an insignificant sentence for espionage, if the wine is considered to be murderous many years later.

Thus, it raises doubts that Skripal was attacked only because of the state treason, "- concluded a representative of Stratfor. As previously reported, on March 12, British Prime Minister Teresa Mei stated that Russia is most likely to be behind the poisoning of Skripal. Recall, Sergei Skripal was an employee of the GRU, where he worked until 1999. In 1995, he was recruited by the British special services. In 2006, a Russian court sentenced him to 13 years in prison. In 2010, Skripal was pardoned and transferred to the US. He was poisoned with his daughter on March 4 in Salisbury.