April 5, 2018

Russia’s culpability in the Salisbury poisoning is “beyond reasonable doubt”, the security minister said today as Russia took the spiralling row to the United Nations Security Council.

Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that Britain had “legitimate questions” to answer over its assertion that Moscow was responsible for the attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.

He called for Britain to present its evidence, alleging that Britain was using the case “as a pretext, either made up or staged, for the groundless expulsion of Russian diplomats”.

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