The Russian scientist confirms it: Russia's novichok programme exists, I've worked on it

However, “Sky News” spoke to the man who had a major role in developing Soviet nervous agents and the Novichok program.

“correspondent Sky News” visited him.

Through a field composed of swamps south of Russia, there is a modest city looking for an unanticipated resident, a scientist who had a role in developing Soviet nervous agents.

His name is Vladimir Uglev, where he has spoken about his role in the Novichok programme, reports “Sky News” Transmission Periscope.

The 71-year-old retired scientist didn't want the meeting held in his house instead, we found him waiting at a bus stop just outside the main highway.

I worked until 1993,” he said.

The American offered me to work for them so I could be involved in the Russian government, but I refused. ”

Later, in a quiet spot near the Black Sea, Uglev told us that he invented two of the four substances that were later classified as novichok agents in an object led by other scientist Pyotr Kirpichev.

I was at the Kirpitchev lab at the right time and place. ”

Many people have worked for many years and have managed nothing for just three months that I managed to create the required substances. ”

The United Kingdom has accused Russia of using novichok substances in poisoning Sergei and Yulia Scripal in Salisbury earlier this month.

If a nerve agent <x0 military” was used in Salisbury he said, Sergei and Julia Scripal would have died immediately.

But the former scientist told me that he had juice or dust content (Novichok agents are produced in both cases).

Uglev thinks he is the last living member of the team to develop novichoki in the Soviet Union and that he told us he is unwilling to deny life's work./Periscopi/