MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax) - The Russian Investigative Committee has drawn up a request seeking the United Kingdom's legal assistance as part of a criminal inquiry opened by Russia into the attempt on the life of Russian citizen Yulia Skripal, the daughter of former Russian Main Intelligence Directorate officer Sergei Skripal.
"On March 28, 2018, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sent a legal assistance request to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and asked it to subsequently forward this request to the relevant agencies of the United Kingdom as part of a criminal case opened into the assassination attempt on citizen of the Russian Federation Yulia Skripal that was committed by a generally dangerous method in the city of Salisbury in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," the Investigative Committee said in a report shared with Interfax on Thursday.
"In its request, the Russian side asks its British colleagues to take a number of procedural measures aimed at establishing the circumstances of this crime and provide copies of materials as part of their criminal investigation into this incident, the results of the examination of the site where Yulia Skripal was found unconscious on March 4, 2018, and also the results of her medical checkup and examinations that have been conducted," it said.
The Russian Investigative Committee "reaffirms its readiness to further cooperate with the relevant agencies of the United Kingdom as part of the investigation into the assassination attempt on Yulia Skripal," it said.