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PHOTO: A surveillance image shows both suspects on Fisherton Road, Salisbury, at 1:05 p.m. on March 4, 2018.
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At 3 p.m. March 2, both Russian suspects arrived at Gatwick Airport outside London, after flying from Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU 2588, authorities said. The police released screenshots of CCTV showing both Russians upon arrival, entering with travel documents with the names \"Alexander Petrov\" and \"Ruslan Boshirov.\"

Petrov and Boshirov traveled from the airport to central London, arriving at Victoria station around 5:40 p.m., officials said, adding they spent the night in London at the City Stay Hotel in Bow Road, East London.

Police say they tested the hotel room for Novichok in May and while the first two swabs showed contamination, later tests showed no traces of the nerve agent.

On Saturday morning, Petrov and Boshirov traveled out to Salisbury. “This trip was for reconnaissance of the Salisbury area and do not believe that there was any risk to the public from their movements on this day,\" police said, releasing pictures of the two at the Salisbury train station.

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PHOTO:This undated image taken from the Facebook page of Yulia Skripal on March 8, 2018 allegedly shows Yulia Skripal, the daughter of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, in an unknown location.
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CCTV shows them in the vicinity of Sergei Skripal's house \"moments before the attack\" at 11:58 a.m., authorities said. Police say that's when the suspects contaminated the front door with Novichok.

The two suspects then left Salisbury, returned to London and continued onwards to Heathrow Airport. Police say they returned to Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU 2585, departing at 10:30 p.m. March 4, 55 hours after they arrived in the country. CCTV again showed the pair going through passport control exiting the U.K., authorities said.

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PHOTO: Police officers guard a cordon around a police tent covering the the spot where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found critically ill following exposure to an "unknown substance" in Salisbury, England, March 7, 2018.
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Police said there has been no evidence that the Russians have attempted to re-enter the country. They added that the investigation into Sturgess and Rowley's contact with Novichok continues.

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PHOTO: An undated handout picture released on Sept. 5, 2018, in London by the British Metropolitan Police Service shows a counterfeit perfume box that was discovered by a nerve agent victim.
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\"Charlie told police he found a box he thought contained perfume in a charity bin on Wednesday, 27 June,\" police said Wednesday. \"Inside the box was a bottle and applicator. He tried to put the two parts together at his home address on Saturday, 30 June, and in doing so got some of the contents on himself. He said Dawn had applied some of the substance to her wrists before feeling unwell.\"During a police search of Charlie's home in July, police say they recovered a small box labeled as Nina Ricci Premier Jour and a small glass bottle with a nozzle containing significant traces of Novichok.

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PHOTO: An undated handout picture released on Sept. 5, 2018, in London by the British Metropolitan Police Service shows a bottle and applicator that was discovered by police by a nerve agent victim.
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After police spoke with Nina Ricci, however, the company confirmed that it was not a genuine Nina Ricci perfume bottle, box or nozzle but a counterfeit box, bottle and nozzle, authorities said.Police say they cannot account for the whereabouts of the bottle, nozzle or box between the attack on the Skripals March 4 and when Charlie Rowley said he found it June 27.

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