(12 Mar 2018) The widow of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko said on Monday that British officials had not made good on a written promise sent to her by then Home Secretary Theresa May to take every possible step to prevent a repeat of what happened to her husband.
Alexander Litvinenko, who defected to the UK, died in November 2006, three weeks after drinking tea containing radioactive material.
A UK public inquiry concluded in 2016 he'd been killed by Russia's security service.
Marina Litvinenko told the Associated Press that following news of the the poisoning in the British city of Salisbury of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, she "realised nothing was done."
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday said her government has concluded it is "highly likely" Russia is responsible for the poisoning of the Skripals.
May told British lawmakers that the couple had been exposed to a nerve agent known as Novichok (Novice), a weapon developed in the Soviet Union in the end of the Cold War
Marina Litvinenko told the Associated Press in Berlin that she thought perhaps unknown actors could be behind the attempted murders.
"Maybe somebody else, we don't know who, might have the same power to do this action abroad," she said.
She said that after the poisonings in Salisbury she feared for her safety and the safety of other Russians abroad.
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