An alternative explanation to the mystery surrounding the poisoning of Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter may involve a possibility that neither the British nor Russian governments want to talk about, as Gareth Porter explores. By Gareth Porter Special…Read more →
With the world seemingly spiraling deeper into crisis over an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria and threats of direct conflict with Russia flying from Donald Trump’s Twitter account, Russia’s disarming but stern foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova sat down with the UK’s Sky News for a rare one-on-one interview.
Zakharova spoke in English in the over half an hour exchange, voicing Moscow’s position on US and allied threats of assault on Syria, and the status of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, whom Russia stands blamed by London of poisoning.
Yesterday Yulia Skripal issued a statement via British police, where she has refused contact with the Russian Embassy and her Moscow-based cousin, Viktoria.
In the statement read by Scotland Yard, Yulia allegedly asks for no one else to speak on her behalf (except Scotland Yard), and said that despite leaving Salisbury hospital on Monday, she is “still suffering with the effects of the nerve agent used against us,” adding that her father remains “seriously ill.”
Russia’s UN envoy blasted the UK’s attempt to blame the poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal on Moscow, describing the entire hoax as a “theater of absurd.”
The extraordinary UN Security Council meeting was requested by Russia, following the announcement made by the secretive British Porton Down chemical laboratory, that it had not established that the Novichok nerve agent used in the poisoning was of Russian origin.
After being hospitalized in a poisoning in Salisbury, UK in early March, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, have been upgraded to a stable condition.
Keep calm and backpedal.
The UK Foreign Office was busted yesterday deleting a tweet on Russia producing the nerve agent allegedly used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal.
The Theresa May – Boris Johnson poisoning hoax continues to unravel, drawing criticism from inside and outside the United Kingdom.
OSCE ex-Vice President Willy Wimmer told RT that the UK government is behaving like ‘mafia state’ in Skripal case.
The Russian Foreign Ministry says it has no understanding how to convene a NATO-Russia Council in the current poisoning hoax climate…considering NATO’s statements regarding a readiness for dialogue but concurrently expelling Russian diplomats.
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko stated at the Valdai Discussion Club’s event…
“Yes, indeed, seven people have been declared undesirable. And they (in Brussels) have announced that they will not issue visas to three other employees.”
Salisbury is still suffering from the crazy Skripal/nerve agent event that took place on Sunday 4th March. Four weeks on the picture is still grim despite local efforts to encourage people to come to the city. It is after all a shopping and tourist magnet.
Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace talked U.S. – Russia relations, with Fox News “analyst” Gillian Turner weighing in on a recent UK poisoning hoax.
