According to The Sun,
British police are believed to have identified the suspected perpetrators of
the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.
MOSCOW, July 19.
/TASS/. Great Britain has not provided the Organization for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with specific information about suspects in the
Salisbury incident, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OPCW Alexander
Shulgin said on the sidelines of a meeting of Russian ambassadors and envoys.
"The British
provided no specific information to the OPCW," he said when asked if
London had handed information about suspects in the Salisbury incident over to
the organization.
According to The Sun
newspaper, British police are believed to have identified the suspected
perpetrators of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.
Skripal incident
According to London,
former Russian military intelligence (GRU) Colonel Sergei Skripal, who had been
convicted in Russia of spying for Great Britain and later swapped for Russian
intelligence officers, and his daughter Yulia suffered the effects of an
alleged nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury on March 4. Claiming that
the substance used in the attack had been a Novichok-class nerve agent
developed in the Soviet Union, London rushed to accuse Russia of being involved
in the incident. Moscow rejected all of the United Kingdom’s accusations,
saying that a program aimed at developing such a substance had existed neither
in the Soviet Union nor in Russia.
Chief Executive of
the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down Gary
Aitkenhead said later that British experts had been unable to identify the
origin of the nerve agent used in the attack on the Skripals.
Source: ITAR-TASS
19-07-2018
