“Speaking in the Commons, Prime Minister Theresa May said the government had concluded, from intelligence provided by UK agencies, that the men were part of the GRU intelligence service. The poisoning was ‘not a rogue operation’ and was ‘almost certainly’ approved at a senior level of the Russian state, she said.” (The leader of a liberal democracy agreeing with the findings of their intel agencies? Weird.) BBC: Salisbury Novichok poisoning: Russian nationals named as suspects.