<p class="title">British prosecutors have charged two Russian men with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Crown Prosecution Service says Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prosecutor Sue Hemming said on Wednesday that the UK is not asking Moscow to extradite the men because Russian law forbids extradition of the country's citizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police say the men, both about 40, flew from Moscow to London on Russian passports two days before the Skripals were poisoned on March 4. </p>
<p class="title">British prosecutors have charged two Russian men with the nerve agent poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Crown Prosecution Service says Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov are charged in absentia with conspiracy to murder, attempted murder and use of the nerve agent Novichok.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Prosecutor Sue Hemming said on Wednesday that the UK is not asking Moscow to extradite the men because Russian law forbids extradition of the country's citizens.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Police say the men, both about 40, flew from Moscow to London on Russian passports two days before the Skripals were poisoned on March 4. </p>