DISINFO: London has no evidence of Moscow's complicity in Skripals' poisoning
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: ro.sputnik.md ( archived) *
  • Date of publication: August 07, 2019
  • Outlet language(s): Romanian
  • Countries / regions discussed: UK, Russia

DISINFO: London has no evidence of Moscow's complicity in Skripals' poisoning

SUMMARY

British police have acknowledged that they have no evidence to suggest that the Russian authorities were complicit in the attack on the Skripals.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury claiming that the UK has never proved Russia’s involvement and has not provided any evidence. As clearly stated by Ambassador Karen Pierce, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council on the 5th of September 2018, UK police and UK intelligence services have produced sufficient hard forensic evidence to charge two Russian nationals, identified as officers of the Russian Military Intelligence, GRU, for the attack against the Skripals. The investigative outlet Bellingcat later revealed the identities of the two Russian nationals. Furthermore, the UK investigation found that Sergey and Yuliya Skripal were poisoned using a specific Novichok nerve agent that could not have been produced by non-state actors. This was confirmed by an independent OPCW [Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons] analysis. According to the UK intelligence assessment, based on open-source analysis and intelligence information, in the past decade, Russia has produced and stockpiled small quantities of Novichok agents, long after it signed the Chemical Weapons Convention. For similar cases see here.

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