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03-07-2018, 12:25 PM
SALISBURY, England: Britain warned on Tuesday it would respond robustly if Russia was shown to be behind the mysterious illness that struck down a former Russian double agent convicted of betraying dozens of spies to British intelligence.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson named Sergei Skripal, once a colonel in Russia?s GRU military intelligence service, and his daughter, Yulia, as the two people who were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench outside a shopping centre in southern England.
Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter were exposed to what police said was an unknown substance in the English city of Salisbury. Both are still critically ill in intensive care.
"I say to governments around the world that no attempt to take innocent life on UK soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished," Johnson told the British parliament, adding that Russia was a malign and disruptive force in the world.
"While it would be wrong to pre-judge the investigation, I can reassure the House that should evidence emerge that implies state responsibility, then her majesty?s government will respond appropriately and robustly," he said.
A previous British inquiry said President Vladimir Putin probably approved the 2006 murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement in Litvinenko?s killing.
Litvinenko, 43, an outspoken critic of Putin who fled Russia for Britain six years before he was poisoned, died after drinking green tea laced with the rare and very potent radioactive isotope at London?s Millennium Hotel. It took some time for British doctors to discern the cause of Litvinenko?s illness.His murder sent Britain?s relations with Russia to what was then a post-Cold War low.Relations suffered further from Russia?s annexation of Crimea and military backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against rebels trying to topple him.
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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson named Sergei Skripal, once a colonel in Russia?s GRU military intelligence service, and his daughter, Yulia, as the two people who were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench outside a shopping centre in southern England.
Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter were exposed to what police said was an unknown substance in the English city of Salisbury. Both are still critically ill in intensive care.
"I say to governments around the world that no attempt to take innocent life on UK soil will go either unsanctioned or unpunished," Johnson told the British parliament, adding that Russia was a malign and disruptive force in the world.
"While it would be wrong to pre-judge the investigation, I can reassure the House that should evidence emerge that implies state responsibility, then her majesty?s government will respond appropriately and robustly," he said.
A previous British inquiry said President Vladimir Putin probably approved the 2006 murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in London. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement in Litvinenko?s killing.
Litvinenko, 43, an outspoken critic of Putin who fled Russia for Britain six years before he was poisoned, died after drinking green tea laced with the rare and very potent radioactive isotope at London?s Millennium Hotel. It took some time for British doctors to discern the cause of Litvinenko?s illness.His murder sent Britain?s relations with Russia to what was then a post-Cold War low.Relations suffered further from Russia?s annexation of Crimea and military backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against rebels trying to topple him.
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