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Peskov: May conversation with Putin in the Skripals case was a stiff
The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said that part of the conversation between the Prime Minister of Great Britain Teresa May and Vladimir Putin, who concerned the poisoning of the Skripals, was "tough" and "extremely frank."
According to Peskov, Putin "quite intelligibly" explained to the Prime Minister everything that required an explanation in this case, "but it is difficult for him to say whether May remained satisfied with what he heard.
Peskov did not say other details of the conversation, adding only that, in his opinion, the British side has not yet provided any evidence of Russia's guilt in the poisoning of the Skripals. “Otherwise, they would somehow be published,” the press secretary of Putin summed up.
May meeting with Putin took place on June 28 in the Japanese city of Osaka during the G20 summit. Its part of it, in which the Skripals case was touched, went behind closed doors only in the presence of translators.
See also May - Putin: normalization of relationships is now impossible- Former Russian GRU employee Sergey Skripal, who collaborated with British intelligence, and his daughter Julia were poisoned in March 2018 in the English city of Salisbury by the nervous substance "Novice". In addition to them, as a result of the action of the Novice, three citizens of Great Britain - Charlie Rowley, Nika Bailey, Don Steurzes suffered. The latter died. The Skripals managed to survive. Their current location is thoroughly hidden.
- According to investigators, his former colleagues could be attempted by Skripal. The Bellingcat investigative group established their names - these are GRU officers Anatoly Chepig and Alexander Mishkin, who, according to the group, entered Britain on fake passports for the names of Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov.
- According to BBC and Bellingcat, the actions of Chepigi and Mishkin was led by Major General GRU Denis Sergeyev. He entered the UK territory on a passport, the number of which was only a few numbers from the numbers of the documents of the alleged Skripals poisoners. Journalists also found Sergeyev’s call to the phone number, which, according to BBC sources, could belong to his connected in Russian intelligence. This number belonged to the device that was never associated with any of the towers of mobile communications and did not have IMEI, a unique number to identify mobile phones. In addition, contrary to Russian legislation, the number for several years did not have the owner.
- Russia denies involvement in the poisoning of the Skripals.
- On Thursday, Vladimir Putin, in an interview with the newspaper Financial Times, said that "betrayal is the largest crime that may be on earth." He added that he does not believe that "traitors need to be punished in such a way as in Salisbury, but they must still be punished."