The chemical reagent used to poison double agent Sergei Skripal has been under strict American control since 1999.
Vyacheslav Nikonov, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Education and Science, stated this at a talk show on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As for the accusations that Russia cannot control its chemical weapons, Russia destroyed its chemical weapons, and before the United States did. The chemical reagent they were talking about was produced in Nukus, in a laboratory that has been under strict American control since 1999. Samples of it are in all the intelligence services of Western countries, including in the laboratory, which is located a few kilometers from Salisbury, where all this happened,” he said.