To complete this tutorial, you will need a Linux machine with [Docker]
I'm using Ubuntu over Windows Subsystem for Linux. Works very well.
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- Mar 2026
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gruyaume.medium.com gruyaume.medium.com
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following file into this directory
The 'following file' should be called
compose.yaml
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- Apr 2023
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www.ukcolumn.org www.ukcolumn.org
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The Daily Mail suggested that a second Novichok container might still be undiscovered in Salisbury.
D'uh.
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If we accept these reports from ministers, diplomats and the media, as well as the police statement that the the Salisbury and Amesbury poisonings are linked—and if we also accept Rowley’s statement that the bottle was boxed and wrapped in plastic—then it would seem that before returning to London, the GRU agents disassembled their assassination weapon, put it into a box, sealed it in plastic, and then threw it away.
Codswallop. The obvious conclusion is that the assassins had at least two samples of nerve agent, one they used, and one as a backup. And that they disposed of both used and unopened backup but only the latter was found.
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After Sergei and Yulia were exposed to Novichok by touching the front door handle of Christie Miller Road, it took a few hours for the toxin to have a significant effect on either of them.
This is to be expected. Skin absorption of nerve agent takes a much longer time to achieve toxic levels.
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The GRU assassins allegedly used a fake perfume bottle to poison the door after 12.00 noon on 4 March 2018. It seems they then discarded the bottle. It was undiscovered for four months until it appeared at a flat eight miles away from Salisbury after a woman was apparently poisoned by its contents.
Was it the same bottle? Did Charlie Rowley find another bottle of the stuff that had been discarded?
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They both came into contact with Novichok after the GRU assassins smeared the front door handle of Skripal’s house with poison gel.
Is the author stating this as fact?
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Despite Grozev’s assertion, Porton Down was able to identify the nerve agent in blood samples taken from the Skripals hours after they were poisoned, and the OPCW was able to confirm Porton Down’s analysis using a second set of blood samples taken from the Skripals two weeks later.
So, either Grozev is wrong about the persistence, or PD and the OPCW are lying.
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“Within hours, any trace of it will disappear,” Grozev says. “So it will always forever look like it was a natural death.”
Questionable. The persistence of this agent is unknown
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who flew to London Gatwick from Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU2588 in order to kill him with Novichok, a nerve agent so lethal it was described at the UN as a weapon of mass destruction—like the UK-developed nerve agent VX, but even more deadly.
If they weren't there to poison Skripal, then exactly why were they there?
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Some inconsistencies in the detail of the timeline are noted—it is for the reader to decide how significant these inconsistencies may be.
All timelines reconstructed after the event will have some inconsistencies.
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