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NERVE-AGENT ATTACK: Provide proof of poisoning or apologise, Russia tells UK

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NERVE-AGENT ATTACK: Provide proof of poisoning or apologise, Russia tells UK

Russian authorities have ordered the UK to provide proof that it actually used a nerve-agent on British soil following the alleged poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia.

Russia’s reaction is coming after the UK piled pressure on Moscow to reveal details of supply of Novichok, used in the ‘attempted murder’ of the double agent and his daughter who were both found in a collapsed state on a public bench outside a shopping centre in Salisbury, England, last month.

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BORIS JOHNSON: Russia has been stockpiling nerve agent used on former spy

“Sooner or later these unsubstantiated allegations will have to be answered for: either backed up with the appropriate evidence or apologised for,” Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson, said in a statement on Monday.

British foreign minister Boris Johnson had earlier accused Russia of stockpiling the deadly nerve agent used to poison Skripal and his daughter Yulia on British soil.

According to Johnson, Russia used the Soviet-era nerve agent called Novichok on Skripal and his daughter which he said is the first known offensive use of such a weapon on European soil since World War Two.

 

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