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Salisbury spy poisoning: Yulia Skripal says she is 'lucky to have survived' and would one day like to go home to Russia Salisbury spy poisoning: Yulia Skripal says she is 'lucky to have survived' and would one day like to go home to Russia
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Yulia Skripal has said she feels lucky to have survived the attempted poisoning at her father Sergei's home in Salisbury and that she one day hopes to return home to Russia.    Yulia Skripal has said she feels lucky to have survived the nerve agent attack in Salisbury which left her fighting for life.
"I still find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that both of us were attacked," she said, adding that their recovery had been "slow and extremely painful." Ms Skripal, who was poisoned along with her father Sergei in March, said her life had been “turned upside down” by the attempted assassination. 
Despite the attack being blamed on Russia, she added she hoped to return to her homeland one day.
“I still find it difficult to come to terms with the fact that both of us were attacked,” she told the Reuters news agency, adding that their recovery had been “slow and extremely painful.”
She added that it was “shocking” that a nerve agent had been used in the attack.  
“I don’t want to describe the details but the clinical treatment was invasive, painful and depressing,” she said, adding that her life had “been turned upside down as I try to come to terms with the devastating changes thrust upon me both physically and emotionally.”
She said: I take one day at a time and want to help care for my dad till his full recovery. In the longer term I hope to return home to my country.”
Both she and her father needed time “recover and come to terms with everything that has happened,” she said. 
While she was “grateful for the offers of assistance from the Russian Embassy”, she said she did not wish to “avail myself of their services.”
She added: “No one speaks for me, or for my father, but ourselves.”
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