Moscow Slams Reported Britain's "Proof" on Skripal's Poisoning as 'May's Fail'

TEHRAN (defapress)- Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said that London and Washington had ignored Moscow's request to send it a printed document related to the Skripal case.

News ID: 69419

Date: 28 March 2018 - 22:19

In her Facebook page, Zakharova has commented on the Kommersant daily's publication on what she said has prompted the expulsion of Russian diplomats in connection with Skripals' poisoning, Sputnik reported.

"This is (UK Prime Minister) Theresa May's fail. The largest manipulation of the world public opinion has been revealed, and British authorities are involved in it. Just assess it. The decisions on a state's responsibility in a chemical attack were made on the basis of six pictures," she wrote.

Earlier, she told Russia's NTV Channel that the US and the UK had refused to heed Moscow's call to deliver it a printed document pertaining to the Salisbury incident.

"The document, which is a sort of London's explanations on what happened in Salisbury, has never been published by the media," Zakharova said.

She added that the Russian Foreign Ministry had repeatedly tried to obtain the document, sending relevant requests to its British and American colleagues.

"We did so publicly but in response we received zero information," she pointed out.

Zakharova's remarks came a few days after more than 100 Russian diplomats were expelled by about 20 European countries as well as the US, Canada and Ukraine over Moscow's alleged involvement in the March 4 poisoning of former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain's Salisbury.

On Tuesday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance had withdrawn the accreditation of seven staff at the Russian Mission to NATO and denied the pending accreditation request for three others.

Moscow has pledged to respond in kind to the expulsions, which it said ride roughshod over an investigation into the Skripal case.