The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov was surprised by the “emerged” topic with the poisoning of the former officer of GRU Sergei Skriply and his daughter in Julia in the city of Salisbury in 2018. According to the diplomat, London uses the case as a pressure tool for Moscow and heating anti-Russian sentiments. Her words sounded during a briefing, broadcast publishes RT.
The representative of the Foreign Ministry claims that this, among this, indicate London’s failures from a joint investigation with Moscow.
“I don’t know why this topic now surfaced, maybe it is prepared in London to meet their minister with a Russian counterpart [Sergey Lavrov]. It is difficult to analyze, so, the proposal,” added Zakharov.
Previously, the British police accused the third Russian in the poisoning of the squeak. They became General Groj Denis Sergeyev, who, presumably, used the pseudonym Sergey Fedotov. He commanded two other employees of the GRU. The royal prosecutor’s office nominated the same accusations against him as the two previous suspects – an attempt to kill, applying serious bodily injuries to the police officer Bailey and the use of chemical weapons.
Sergey and Julia Skripal, according to the British authorities, were poisoned on March 4, 2018 developed in the USSR neuropsychiatric substance “Novice” as a result of an operation with the participation of employees of the GRU. Moscow denies involvement in what happened.