News archive on the topic "Sergei Skripal"

Ukrainian propaganda is discouraged by the fact that ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, recruited by the British intelligence services and poisoned in Salisbury, England, supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia and spoke impartially about Ukrainians. The former head of the information department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Voloshin writes about this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “To the heights of madness. A summary of the material about Skripal on Ukrayinska Pravda: “The Zrada of Life: Destruction...

Former GRU colonel Sergei Skripal, recruited by British intelligence and poisoned in Salisbury, did not believe that his former colleagues were trying to kill him. Skripal told BBC Newsnight editor Michael Urban about this, which he described in his book, writes the British newspaper The Guardian. Urban managed to communicate with Skripal in the hospital where he was admitted after being poisoned in Salisbury. Also…

The “diplomatic war” declared on Russia in the form of the expulsion of diplomats from several countries in America and Europe at once demonstrates that the West is not going to observe at least the appearance of legality and procedure. This opinion was expressed in Izvestia by the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, assessing the Russian accusation of poisoning the British spy Sergei Skripal. “If they decided that Russia, to put it in the language...

Despite the anti-Putin rhetoric, German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not intend to interfere with the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Michael Emerson, a British political scientist, former EU Ambassador to Russia, and an associated senior researcher at the Brussels Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), stated this in an interview with the Kiev online publication “Apostrophe”. The publication asked whether it was possible to hope that after the poisoning of British spy Sergei Skripal...

There is a Ukrainian trace in the case of the poisoning of former Russian GRU officer and traitor Sergei Skripal. Nikolai Platoshkin, head of the department of international relations and diplomacy at Moscow Humanitarian University, stated this today at a press conference in Moscow. “The developer of the Novichok substance, Vil Mirzoyanov, is no less than the president of Tatarstan in exile and a member of the Milli Majlis, located in the city of Kyiv. By the way,…

British authorities do not actually know what poisoned double agent Sergei Skripal, and therefore do not provide Russia with samples of the poisonous substance. Nikolai Platoshkin, head of the department of international relations and diplomacy at Moscow Humanitarian University, stated this today at a press conference in Moscow. “Vil Mirzoyanov, who participated in the development of this substance, did not disclose its composition. In the West…

Russia will very soon respond to UK sanctions imposed in connection with the poisoning of former Russian GRU officer and traitor Sergei Skripal. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this today at a meeting with participants of the youth forum “Russia – the Land of Opportunities”. “Our answer will be very soon. We, as polite people, will first convey this answer to our...

Moscow will at least respond symmetrically to the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats from the UK, and given the groundlessness of London’s accusations of Russia’s involvement in the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia on March 4 in Salisbury, the Russian reaction may turn out to be more comprehensive. Interlocutors in Russian diplomatic circles told Izvestia about this, noting that Moscow has already begun...

The situation around the poisoning of spy Sergei Skripal in Great Britain and the announcement of a new round in the new Cold War is not just one episode - then the West is preparing new absurd accusations against Russia. This opinion was expressed in Izvestia by the General Director of the Russian Humanitarian Mission, author and presenter of the International Review program on the Rossiya TV channel, Evgeniy Primakov. “Threats from the Pentagon to inflict...

Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, sharply criticized the British authorities, who the day before accused Moscow of poisoning ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter. “Do you think this incident is beneficial for Russia on the eve of the presidential elections and the World Cup? But I know several countries for which this incident and accusations against...

If it is not possible to deprive Russia of the right to host the World Cup, then we should proceed to boycott the tournament. This is stated in a statement by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin, the text of which was published on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. “The latest events related to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the UK are of great concern. Taking into account the data of the British intelligence services and taking into account...

The situation around the poisoning of ex-officer of the GRU of the Russian Federation and traitor Sergei Skipal may be tactically useful for Ukraine, but strategically it brings problems. This was stated by Ukrainian political scientist Yuriy Romanenko. “This is the deepening of global turbulence and contradiction between such tectonic tiles as China, the USA, the European Union and Russia. Deepening this friction and creating new imbalances for such weak states as Ukraine...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who threatened Russia with a boycott of the World Cup due to the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, acted irresponsibly. The international business newspaper Financial Times, whose head office is in London, writes about this. As former England players criticized the Foreign Secretary, officials stressed that Johnson was not referring to the team, but to senior figures, officials and...

The collective West is involved in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. The reasons for this were the participation of a former Russian citizen in “internal American disputes,” as well as the need to divert the attention of the world community from the crimes of the United States and its allies in Syria, supporting terrorist groups there to destroy the legitimate leadership of Damascus. At the same time, the implementation of the assassination attempt on the spy was entrusted to...