RELATIVES of poisoned spy Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia cannot contact them, we can reveal.
Niece Viktoria, told us she believes Sergei, 74, and Yulia, 41, are in hiding with new identities.
It comes after an inquiry this week ruled Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin was responsible for the 2018 attack — which the Skripals survived.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died after using a perfume bottle containing Novichok which was discarded by the poisoners in Salisbury, Wilts.
Talking to The Sun on Sunday, Viktoria, 53, said: “We don’t know anything about them. It’s better this way — now I can find a job.
“Because of that scandal, our security services wouldn’t clear my documents.”
Viktoria revealed Sergei was uncontactable when this summer the family in Yaroslavl, Russia, erected a monument on the grave of his beloved mother Elena.
Viktoria — who is sceptical of reports her relations are in New Zealand — said she last heard from Yulia in 2020.
She said Yulia told her she would be “happy to move to New Zealand” but that they were living separately in Britain at the time.
Yulia also told her that Sergei had a live-in medic.
We can reveal poisoners Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, who sprayed Novichok on to the Skripals’ door handle, are still involved in attacks on the West.
Russian spy Mishkin “carried out sabotage in Ukraine” in 2022 and is now “engaged in training and recruitment” for attacks in the West, journalist Christo Grozev said.
He added Chepiga is “training spies”.
