Russia in a large twenty

A poisonous substance similar to the novice poison could produce about 20 countries of the world. President Vladimir Putin said this on Tuesday at a press conference in Ankara following negotiations with the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Interfax reports .

"As you know, I myself learned about this incident from the media. I want to only add to this: according to international experts, in approximately 20 countries of the world such neuro -paralytic substances can be made," the Russian president said.

Putin expressed the hope that at the session of the Executive Committee of the organization to prohibit chemical weapons, which will be held on Wednesday, in the investigation of the poisoning of the ex-GRU officer Sergei Skripal, "the final point will be set."

The president called the reaction of Western countries to the Skripal reaction "unwinding the anti -Russian campaign".

In addition, Putin said that British experts who analyzed the poison, which was poisoned by Skripal, allegedly could not establish the country of its origin. In fact, employees of the defense and technology laboratory operating in the structure of the British Ministry of Defense came to the conclusion that this poisonous substance could be produced only with the participation of the state , while the task of establishing the place of its manufacture was not set before them.

On Tuesday evening, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that London would have to apologize to Moscow for accusations of involvement in Skripal's poisoning. “Their theory will not be confirmed in any case, because it is impossible to confirm it,” the official said.

On March 18, the head of the British Foreign Ministry Boris Johnson accused Moscow of secret production of Novice . According to the diplomat, the Russian authorities produced poison over the past 10 years, accumulated its reserves, and also conducted research on the use of neuro-paralytic substances for murders.