While the world's eyes have been turned to Salisbury, the two people at the centre of the nerve agent attack have lain unaware, surrounded only by medical staff in chemical protection suits and breathing apparatus.
The picture of comatosed Russian double agent Sergei Skripal's life that has emerged in the last three weeks has been a relatively lonely one, far from his native Russia, his wife dead and their 43-year-old son Alexander dying last July, apparently from liver failure.
Yulia, who was visiting her father and is also unconscious and in a critical but stable condition in Salisbury District Hospital lived briefly in the UK in 2014 - but spent most of her time in Moscow, returning only...