Former Soviet military chemist Vil Mirzayanov, who has been living in the United States since 1996, believed to be one of Novicek's nerve gas inventors, said in an interview that Serghej Skripal and his daughter Yulia will probably die or will remain disabled for life.
"Convalescence is completely ruled out," the scientist decreed, adding that the nerve gas formula is still secreted and that only Russia could have made it. The researcher says that "Noviciok" is 10 times more powerful than any other nerve-like chemical. In the summer period 2 grams of this nerve gas would be enough to kill 500 people.
Being the chemical agent with a binary action, "Noviciok" can be stored in two completely harmless elements that can be transported separately and only before use assembled in a deadly aerosol.