Russian scientist Vladimir Uglev : There is no antidote to Novichok

Russian scientist, Vladimir Uglev, said that former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia will die if they are taken off life support because there is no antidote to nerve agent Novichok


Vladimir Uglev was an employee at Russia’s state scientific research institute for organic chemistry and technology, or GOSNIIOKHT. There he helped develop "Novichok" in a pilot project between 1972 and 1988 in the town of Volsk in the Saratov region.

Uglev added that Novichok is in fact a group of four nerve agents, each named after the year they were created. He developed B-1976 and C-1976. The other two, A-1972 and D-1980, were developed by Pyotr Kirpichev, who led the so-called “Foliant program” ordered by the then Soviet ministry of defense.

He disclosed to Russian news outlet The Bell that the person who poisoned Skripal would have had to transport the nerve agent via a carrier like cotton balls or powder, which would have been in a container covered in a degassing solution.