Yulia Skripal's cousin injects unpredictable element to spy poisoning case

The Russian TV broadcast of a conversation between a recovering Yulia Skripal and her cousin Viktoria, followed soon after by the first UK government sanctioned statement from Yulia on her improving health, injects a highly unpredictable personal element into the staged trench warfare between two nation states.Both Russia and the UK, operating to tight scripts, are fighting to retain their global reputation, but both countries may find themselves highly dependent on the members of the Skripal fa