As stated in a statement by the British Ministry of Defense, this was done on the "eve" of the anniversary of the poisoning in Salisbury of the ex-Colonel of the GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter Julia.
“We recognize that we need to be stubborn in confronting growing threats, so we allocated £ 11 million to ensure that we can do it at the highest level in the world,” the report said.
On March 1, British police, almost a year after the GRU ex-colonel Sergei Skripal’s poisoning in Salisbury, and his daughter Yulia reported that she was continuing to investigate this case.
The Russian Embassy in Great Britain prepared a report on the anniversary of the incident in Salisbury.