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LONDON, Mar 29 - RIA Novosti. Yulia Skripal's condition has improved somewhat, her father, ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal, remains in intensive care, RIA Novosti was told in the Salisbury district hospital.

"The man remains in a critical but stable state in the intensive care unit after contact with the nerve agent." The woman's condition is improving, now it is stable, "the source said.

He also said that the risk to the health of people who could contact with the Fiddles is minimal.

Earlier in the Foreign Ministry said that the British authorities "leave communication" with Moscow. So, the representatives of the Russian side have not yet received official information about the time of the incident, the state of health of the victims and the course of the investigation. In addition, London has not yet responded to a request for access to a former agent of the GRU and his daughter.

"The United Kingdom openly, without any embarrassment, violates international legal norms and, in particular, the consular convention between the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain of 1968," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted.

Incident in Salisbury

On March 4, former Colonel GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia found unconscious in the center of Salisbury. The British authorities claim that the ex-agent was poisoned with a substance developed within the framework of the Soviet program "Novice". At the same time, chemical weapons with such a name did not exist in the USSR, and numbers were used to denote toxins.

As a "response step," London sent 23 Russian diplomats out of the country. Britain was supported by 16 EU countries, as well as the USA, Canada, Norway, Australia, Moldova, Albania, Macedonia and Ukraine. In total, more than 150 Foreign Ministry staff will leave diplomatic missions.

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