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Yulia Skripal Says She And Father 'Lucky' To Survive Attack With Nerve Agent

In her first appearance on camera since the March poisoning, Skripal said that she was concentrating on nursing her father back to health, but that she eventually hoped to return to Russia.
Yulia Skripal speaks to a journalist on Wednesday in London following her March poisoning with a nerve agent in Salisbury along with her father, Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

The daughter of an ex-double agent who survived a nerve agent attack in the U.K. earlier this year says she and her father are "lucky" to have survived the assassination attempt and that she hopes to return eventually to her home in Russia.

Yulia Skripal and 66-year-old Sergei Skripal spent weeks in critical condition after they were found unconscious

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