DISINFO: No evidence of Russian involvement in Skripal poisoning but suspicions of UK's involvement
SUMMARY
Russia was accused without any evidence by the UK of being responsible for the attack on the Skripals. Russia has repeatedly denied its involvement.
Moreover, the UK is strongly suspected of having developed the chemical A-234 named "Novichok" at Porton Down Military Chemical Laboratory, located near Salisbury and Amesbury.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation messages about the poisoning and attempted murder of former Russian GRU officer Sergei Skripal.
On 4 March 2018, Sergei Skripal and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury after being poisoned by a nerve agent. At least 21 people received medical treatment due to the attack. The UK investigation found that Sergey and Yuliya Skripal were poisoned using a specific Novichok nerve agent that could only have been produced by non-state actors. This was confirmed by an independent OPCW analysis.
The British Police have presented a solid chain of evidence on the Skripal case, with pictures, connecting the suspects to the locations in the case. Parts of the material have been released to the public. The evidence was sufficient to charge two Russian nationals, Anatoliy Chepiga and Aleksandr Mishkin with the attack on the Skripals, both of them Russian military intelligence (GRU) who travelled to the UK using fake names and documents. In September 2021, British police charged in absentia a third Russian GRU agent, Denis Sergeev, who used the alias Sergei Fedotov. See here the EU statement on the Salisbury attack.
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