Litvinenko case: UK inquiry says Putin probably approved ex-spy’s murder

Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the operation by Russian officials to kill former FSB spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, a detailed UK inquiry has concluded.Retired High Court Judge Robert Owen, who conducted the inquiry, wrote that he was “sure” that two former Russian officials poisoned the 44-year-old at a London hotel with highly radioactive polonium-210.And Owen wrote that he was also “sure” that the two men who poisoned Litvinenko ...