UK seeks two Russian spies

London : Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday that two Russian spies carried out a nerve agent attack on a former colleague on British soil, as prosecutors issued a warrant for the suspects’ arrest. Prosecutors announced charges against Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov for trying to kill Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok in the city of Salisbury on March 4. May told MPs the pair “are officers of the Russian military intelligence service, also known as the GRU” -- adding the attack had been sanctioned from higher up. “This was not a rogue operation. It was almost certainly also approved outside the GRU at a senior level of the Russian state,” she said.