The Russian Foreign Ministry called on London to comment on the situation with the Victoria Skripal visa

The Russian Foreign Ministry called on UK officials to speak out about what is happening with the issuance of a visa to the cousin of Julia Skripal. As the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said on the air of Russia-24 television channel, the refusal of commentary is a complete ugliness from the British colleagues.

“We strongly urge Great Britain to officially make a statement and explain about what is happening with a visa for Victoria Skripal. This is a complete unit disgrace - what we see when a country that speaks out of any aspect of Russian domestic policy, for some reason refuses to comment in terms of issuing a British visa in such circumstances, ”she said ( a quote from Interfax).

According to Zakharova, the officials of Great Britain from humanitarian reasons "are obliged to find strength and officially speak out about at least this aspect."

“There is an emergency that Russian citizens in the UK fell into the UK. We are talking about their life. None of Russia has any access to them. And at the moment, we do not understand what is happening with access or underpare a relative to this family, ”said the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation admitted that "each country, of course, has the right to issue or not to issue a visa, this is a sovereign right." “But taking into account the fact that the United Kingdom accused the Russian Federation of actually an attack on the Skripals, the Prime Minister of Great Britain in parliament, in our opinion, was repeatedly expressed regarding the issuance or impudent of Victoria Skripal Britain in a state,” she said.

Earlier, BBC, citing his own sources, said that Victoria Skripal refused a British visa. The Sky News TV channel, citing an unnamed employee of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs, noted that the reason for the refusal was Victoria Skripal immigration rules when submitting a request.

“The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that the niece of the poisoned Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal was refused to issue a visa,” the Independent newspaper writes on his website.

Victoria Skripal herself told Interfax that she did not know anything about the refusal of her visa. “I don't know anything about it. The embassy did not say anything to me, ”she said.