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Russia says UK may be behind ex-spy chemical attack
[PRESSTV] Russia says Britannia may have been behind the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter, deepening the diplomatic crisis between London and Moscow.London is hiding facts and could destroy key evidence in the nerve agent attack, Vladimir Yermakov, head of the Russian foreign ministry's non-proliferation department, said Wednesday at a presser in Moscow. Speaking at a remarkable briefing given for all foreign ambassadors in Russia, Ermakov said that "either the British authorities are unable to protect from a terrorist attack on its territory or staged the attack themselves." The British and the US ambassadors refused to attend the meeting and sent lower-level diplomats, instead. On March 7, British authorities announced that Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, had been hospitalized after being found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in Salisbury. British police attributed the critical illness of the two to a nerve agent developed by the former Soviet Union, and the British premier accused Moscow of being responsible. Last week, UK Prime Minister Theresa May ordered the expulsion of Russian diplomats, claiming that it was "highly likely" that Russian government was involved in Skripal's poisoning. Russia subsequently ordered the expulsion of 23 British diplomats in retaliation. Posted by: Fred 2018-03-22 |
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