BREAKING: Russia was behind assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in London, court rules
Scientists uncovered he drank green tea laced with the rare and very potent radioactive isotope at London’s Millennium Hotel.
Litvinenko, an outspoken critic of Putin, fled his homeland for Britain six years to the day before he was poisoned.Litvinenko, 43, was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin A British inquiry concluded in 2016 that Putin probably approved a Russian intelligence operation to murder Litvinenko.
The European Court of Human Right’s ruling said: ‘Russia was responsible for assassination of Aleksandr Litvinenko in the UK,’ the ruling said.
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