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Russia was responsible for the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found.

Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who became a British citizen, died of polonium poisoning in 2006 in London.

A UK public inquiry conducted in 2016 concluded that the killing was "probably approved" by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia has always denied any involvement in his murder.

The UK inquiry said former KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoi and another Russian, Dmitry Kovtun deliberately poisoned Mr Litvinenko by putting the radioactive substance into his drink.

Litvinenko's widow, Marina, took the case against Russia to the Strasbourg-based rights court, which has agreed with the UK inquiry's conclusion.

"The Court found in particular that there was a strong prima facie case that, in poisoning Mr Litvinenko, Mr Lugovoi and Mr Kovtun had been acting as agents of the Russian state," the ECHR ruled."

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A third Russian faces charges over his alleged involvement in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings, which left three people critically ill and one dead.

Prosecutors have authorised charges against Denis Sergeev in the Novichok attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

Dawn Sturgess died after the poisoning and a police officer was badly injured.

Police also confirmed they believe the suspects in the case belonged to a Russian military intelligence team.

Security sources believe Sergeev acted as the on-the-ground commander for the operation and was the senior member of the team from Russia's GRU.

He has also been linked to other covert activity across Europe.

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