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| The niece of poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal has been denied a UK visa to visit her relatives in hospital, the Home Office has confirmed. | The niece of poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal has been denied a UK visa to visit her relatives in hospital, the Home Office has confirmed. |
| Viktoria Skripal had hoped to visit the former spy and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, where the pair have been fighting for their lives after being poisoned by a deadly nerve agent last month. | Viktoria Skripal had hoped to visit the former spy and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, where the pair have been fighting for their lives after being poisoned by a deadly nerve agent last month. |
| Mr Skripal is "no longer in a critical condition", doctors said, while Yulia has regained consciousness and thanked the public for their support in her first public comments since the incident on March 4. | |
| A Home Office spokesman said: “We have refused a visitor visa application from Viktoria Skripal on the grounds that her application did not comply with the immigration rules.” | |
| Viktoria, who lives in Russia, declared she would visit her cousin in hospital after hospital staff announced Yulia was recovering from the attack, which involved the toxic nerve agent novichock. | |
| Russian state television broadcast a telephone conversation between Viktoria and her cousin, where Yulia allegedly said "everything is fine" and her father was "sleeping". | |
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