The British ambassador told when London will present the evidence to Moscow against Petrov and Boshirov in the Skripals case

Great Britain will not provide Russia with data on the progress of the poisoning of the ex-colonel of the GRU Sergey Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury until Moscow answers London questions about this case more than six months ago, the British ambassador to the Russian Federation Lori Bridistow said.

“In March, we asked Russia certain questions regarding the circumstances of the use of neuro -paralytic gas in Salisbury, ” Interfax quotes him. “We are still waiting for an answer to them. Therefore, we do not see the grounds to share information about the progress of the investigation in the UK.”

So the ambassador answered the question of journalists about what reason Britain does not provide Russia with data that would confirm the involvement in the poisoning of the Skripals of Russian citizens"Alexander Petrov" and "Ruslan Boshirov" , who, according to the British intelligence agencies, agents of the GRU.

The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova immediately retorted to Bristow's statements. “Dear Laurie, we don’t have to mislead our, your and world public,” she wrote on Facebook . “The Russian side answered the questions of the British Prime Minister right away, and you are well aware of this.”

According to her, the issues of the British side either imply the recognition of their involvement in the Salisbury incident or the recognition that the Russian Federation has lost control of chemical weapons. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Russian ambassadors in Britain, and President Vladimir Putin, listed Zakharova, answered these questions.

“But the British side did not answer any question that the diplomats and the public asked her,” she emphasized.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia were discovered in an unconscious state in the British town of Salisbury on March 4. The British Prime Minister Teresa May later stated in parliament that both were poisoned by the nerve-paralytic substance "Novice" (A-234) developed in the USSR. In Moscow, these accusations rejected, saying that Russia destroyed all chemical weapons in 2017 under the control of the organization to prohibit chemical weapons.

In early September, the British authoritiessaid that the alleged employees of the GRU Petrov and Boshirov were suspected of poisoning the Skripals. According to London, it was they who applied the Novice substance on the handle of the front door of the house of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, after which the ex-colonel and his daughter Julia were hospitalized.

On September 12, Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum that the Russian authorities know who Petrov and Boshirov are civilians. “There is nothing special and criminal there,” the president added and asked both to tell about himself in the media.

The next day, men who called Petrov and Boshirov appeared in front of the cameras of the Russian television channel RT, confirmed that they really traveled to Salisbury, but exclusively for tourist purposes. They also called nonsense the assumption of the presence of a novice poisoning substance.

After that, a group of investigators Bellingcat announced that in fact, Boshirov is GRU Colonel Anatoly Chepig , and Petrov is a military doctor Alexander Mishkin . It was also reported that both in 2014 were awarded the title of Hero of Russia, and over the past years they have repeatedly been abroad.

At the end of September, the Fontanka edition named the alleged accomplice of Chepigi and Mishkin in the poisoning of Skripals - 45 -year -old employee of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces (former GRU) Sergey Fedotov .