INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Yulia Skripal was visiting her father when the attack took place
along with her father in England last month and on Wednesday refused Russian consular assistance."We have every reason to believe this could
be a question of the deliberate, forcible detention of a Russian citizen or possibly their coercion into a staged announcement," foreign
ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.Yulia Skripal was discharged from hospital on Monday, more than a month after the March 4 nerve
agent attack in the English town of Salisbury which has sparked a global diplomatic crisis
While her whereabouts are unknown, Skripal said she is being supported by police officers who are keeping her informed of their high-profile
according to a note released by London's Metropolitan Police.Yulia Skripal was visiting her father when the attack took place
Sergei Skripal was imprisoned in Russia for selling secrets to British intelligence in the 1990s but was exchanged in a spy swap in
2010.London blames Moscow for the attack, an accusation vehemently denied by the Russian government which has requested access to the
her application to visit the UK rejected, with officials saying it did not comply with immigration rules.Yulia Skripal on Wednesday cast
doubt on her cousin's account, saying: "Her opinions and assertions are not mine and they are not my father's."
