Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected UK ‘baseless accusations’ leveled against Moscow to be behind the nerve agent incident in southern England which has killed one woman injuring three others.
Moscow denies ‘baseless accusations’ following UK nerve agent incidents
18 Jul 2018 - 8:08
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected UK ‘baseless accusations’ leveled against Moscow to be behind the nerve agent incident in southern England which has killed one woman injuring three others.
“We just see the ungrounded accusations – why is it done this way? Why should our relationship be made worse by this?” asked the Russian leader in an interview with Fox News on Monday, adding, “We would like to get documentary evidence but nobody gives it to us.”
On July 4, the UK counter-terrorism police said that they had found two British citizens, a couple identified as Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, in Amesbury, claiming that they had been affected by Novichok, a chemical weapon purportedly developed under a secret Soviet program, three days earlier.
Four days later, British police announced that Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three, died in hospital following an unexplained exposure to the chemical agent.
What happened in Amesbury is considered as the second such incident having occurred in southern England. Back on March 4, British authorities announced that former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia had been hospitalized since they were found unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in the city of Salisbury, near Amesbury.
Days later, they also announced that both victims had been exposed to Novichok, accusing Moscow of conducting the attack, yet declining the Kremlin’s request for a sample of the chemical agent.
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