Joelia Skripal: life upside down after attack

london - Yulia Skripal survived an assassination attempt for which the British authorities hold the Russians responsible. Yet the daughter of one of the most famous Russian double spies says that she wants 'back in time' to her homeland despite the attempt to poison her. 'The fact that nerve gas has been used is shocking. My life has been turned upside down. '

Skripal (33) talked to a press representative for the first time on Wednesday, after being unconscious at the beginning of March on a bench in Salisbury in the company of her father. She was in a coma for 20 days.

'I woke up with the news that we were both poisoned,' she says in an interview with Reuters. 'We can speak of happiness that we are still alive. Our recovery was slow and extremely painful. '