Theresa Would possibly presumably well presumably has accused Russia of being within the support of the assassination of a double agent within the UK

A composite image of Skripal and Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
AP/BBC
Newsnight

• Theresa Would possibly presumably well presumably pointed the finger at Russia in a assertion
  to Parliament on Monday, saying it used to be
  « highly
  most likely » that Russia ordered the assassination of the double
  agent Sergei Skripal.
• Skripal and his daughter had been poisoned in Salisbury,
  England, on March four.
• Would possibly presumably well presumably talked about Russia both ordered the assault or « lost
  control » of somebody with entry to the Russian-made nerve
  agent outdated.
• Russia’s international ministry brushed off Would possibly presumably well presumably’s assertion as
  a « fairy story ».

Britain has formally accused Russia of being within the support of the tried
assassination of the dilapidated ogle Sergei Skripal and his daughter
with a Soviet-expertise nerve agent on its territory.

Top Minister Theresa Would possibly presumably well presumably pointed the finger at Russia in a
assertion to Parliament on Monday afternoon, saying Russia both
ordered the assault or lost control of whoever carried it out.

« In accordance with Russia’s document of doing suppose-sponsored assassinations
and our evaluation that Russia views some defectors as official
targets for assassinations, the government has concluded that it
is extremely most likely that Russia used to be to blame for the act in opposition to
Sergei and Yulia Skripal, » she talked about.

« Either this used to be an immediate act by the Russian suppose in opposition to our
country, or the Russian government lost control of its
perhaps catastrophically detrimental nerve agent and allowed it
to procure into the hands of others. »

Citing UK government scientists, Would possibly presumably well presumably named the chemical compound
outdated within the assault as Novichok, a family of deadly poisons
developed by the Soviet Union within the course of the Frosty Struggle.

Her assertion got right here after a Nationwide Security Council meeting
the place she took evidence from the UK’s three major intelligence
agencies, MI5, MI6, and GCHQ.

Would possibly presumably well presumably gave Russia a lower-off date of unhurried Tuesday in which to present a
« credible response » to her assertion. She talked about if it did now no longer, she
would cease that the assault used to be « an unlawful exercise of force by
the Russian Sing in opposition to the United Kingdom. »

Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, collapsed in a browsing centre
in Salisbury, England, on March four after being poisoned with nerve
agent. They proceed to be in serious condition.

UK Top Minister Theresa
Would possibly presumably well presumably.
REUTERS/Christopher
Furlong/Pool

Skripal is a double agent who handed Russian suppose secrets to
British intelligence within the 1990s and early 2000s.

He used to be pardoned and sent to the UK as fragment of a ogle swap in 2010,
in which Russia launched four brokers to the US and the UK in
swap for 10 Russian brokers within the US.

A spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry described Would possibly presumably well presumably’s
announcement as a « fairy story, » in step with a
tweet by BBC Monitoring, which watches and interprets international
media.