Lammy announces exposure of 18 Russian spies after UK cyber-attacks | Foreign policy

The UK has exposed 18 Russian spies and their units responsible for cyber-attacks in Britain and hacking one of the victims of the Salisbury poisonings, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, has said.

Announcing individual sanctions, Lammy said Russia had targeted media, telecoms providers, political and democratic institutions and energy infrastructure in the UK in recent years.

He also said two of the spies had been involved in planting X-Agent spyware on a device used by Yulia Skripal, the daughter of the former spy Sergei Skripal, five years before they were poisoned with novichok in Salisbury in 2018.

The Skripals survived the attack on British soil but a woman, Dawn Sturgess, was killed after her boyfriend stumbled across the poison in a perfume bottle.

X-Agent is believed to be linked…