LONDON (AP) — Russia’s embassy in London says it wants a meeting with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
In a statement Saturday, the embassy said its dealings with the U.K.’s Foreign Office had been “utterly unsatisfactory.” It said it was “high time” for a meeting between Johnson and Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko to discuss the investigation and other issues.
The Foreign Office says it will respond “in due course.”
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious March 4 in the English city of Salisbury after being poisoned with a nerve agent. Doctors say they are now in stable condition.
British authorities say Russia was behind the military-grade nerve agent. Russia denies the accusation.
The case has triggered a diplomatic crisis between Moscow and the West.
The Russian ambassador will remind Boris of the help that his government gave him during Brexit,
Marina Hyde of the The Guardian has a excellent (and amusing) analysis of this.
Yes, indeedy. Russia is so aggravated it just has to double down.
After all, why would Putin put a Russian nerve agent on a door in England belonging to a Putin adversary? It could have been anyone — a malicious fake news newsboy, a car repo gone bad, a fat guy in his bed…
Who lies more, Putin or Trump? Tough choice.
To someone like me who is steeped in both the documented history and fiction of the Cold War it’s stunning that Putin would re-invent crimes that used to be the province of SMERSH and the old KGB. SMERSH officially ended half a century ago, but that hasn’t stopped Putin from getting revenge on former spies. SMERSH exists de facto if not de jure.
Perhaps they can hold the meeting in the Ecuadorian Embassy? Who better than Assange and Farage to mediate?
And Roger Stone can pre-tweet it’s Boris Johnson’s time in a barrel.