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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

US says Russian intelligence was behind poison attack on Nobel prize-winning journalist

AP

The United States has determined that Russian intelligence carried out an attack on the Nobel Prize-winning journalist and prominent Kremlin critic Dmitry Muratov.

Mr Muratov suffered chemical burns to his eyes after an assailant threw red oil paint and acetone on a train from Moscow to Samara on 7 April, after his Novaya Gazeta  newspaper published critical coverage of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. 

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