Sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman taunts the West by stripping off on Thai holiday as spy swap double agent Sergei Skripal fights for life

SEXY Russian spy Anna Chapman has been pictured stripping off on a luxury Thai holiday - while the double agent she was swapped with in a freedom deal fights for his life.

Seductive pictures of the 36-year-old ex spy sunning herself in Phuket have emerged in the hours since Sergei Skripal was allegedly poisoned in Salisbury shopping centre.

Dubbed as "Russia's most glamorous secret agent" Anna Chapman was one of ten Russian spies exchanged for Sergei Skripal as part of the Russian-US prisoner swap in 2010.

Retired spy Skripal had kept a low profile for the last eight years - but the 66-year-old is now fighting for his life in hospital after reportedly being poisoned.

The GRU agent and a woman - believed to be his daughter - are both critically ill in a Wiltshire hospital as police investigate an unidentified substance.

After spying for Britain Skripal was found guilty for high treason in the form of espionage in 2006 - and only escaped a prison sentence through the high-profile spy swap.

What we know so far:

• Ex-KGB spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia Skripal are in a critical condition in Salisbury after being exposed to an ‘unknown substance’
• Police are investigating a CCTV image which is believed to show the former double agent before the incident 
• A Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury has been cordoned off ‘as a precaution’ 
• Skripal and Yulia were found slumped on a bench while one of them had vomited nearby
• Reports say Skripal feared for his life after the death of his wife and son in car crashes 
• Skripal was jailed for 13 years in 2006 after being found guilty of sharing Russian state secrets to MI6
• In 2010 he was swapped for glamour spy Anna Chapman as part of a deal between Russia and the US
• The incident echoes of the killing of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko

Skripal's quiet retirement in Salisbury appeared to end dramatically yesterday as the suspected poisoning sparked fears of a Kremlin-backed hit.

But Chapman, whose British passport has now been revoked, appeared completely unconcerned by the revelations as she posted photos from her break in Thailand.

The Instagram pictures showing her lazing in a sumptuous jacuzzi villa complex and lazing on Phuket’s tropical Rawai Beachare not the first photos Chapman has has used to mock the West.

Hailed a national hero on her arrival back to Russia in 2010, the pin-up secret agent posed in black lacy lingerie armed with a handgun for the cover of men's magazine Maxim months after her release.

The spook's links to the West begun aged 19 during her time as an economics student at Moscow University.

Chapman - who was born Anna Kushchenko but retains her married name - travelled to London during her summer holidays when she met public schoolboy Alex Chapman at an underground rave party in London's Docklands.

The former Kremlin spy became a British citizen after marrying Alex in 2002.

They divorced four years later.

Months after their wedding Alex was visited by Security Service officer at his home in Bournemouth to question him on his ex-wife's arrest in America.

MI5 wanted to know whether the red-haired Russian, who was also the daughter of a former KGB agent, could have been recruited in Britain, or even spied on the country while she lived in London.

Chapman was once ordered by the Kremlin to seduce whistle-blower Edward Snowden.

She infamously proposed to him on Twitter in 2013 as part of a ruse to keep him in Moscow following his high-profile defection from America.

As a spy Chapman was part of The Illegals Program, what the US called a network of Russian sleeper agents embedded in the country to spy on the FBI.

Once retired, the glamorous enigma went to present a weekly show on Russian TV, worked as a model and was later employed by the Russian government as head of youth council.

She gave birth to her first child in 2016 but would not reveal the father's identity.

The social media lover is also an Instagram celebrity, boasting more than 100,000 followers.

While Chapman appears blissfully unconcerned, Skripal's alleged poisoning has prompted comparisons with Litvinenko's death.

In November 2006 former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was killed by radioactive polonium-210 after it emerged he was being paid by MI6.

The 43-year-old had been an officer with the Federal Security Service (FSB) but later fled to Britain where he became a fierce critic of the Kremlin.

A public inquiry concluded in 2016 that the killing of Mr Litvinenko an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin had "probably" been carried out with the approval of the Russian president.

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