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Kremlin says ‘quite absurd’ to link Russia to Novichok death
MOSCOW, July 9, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The Kremlin on Monday said it would be
absurd to suggest Russia was involved in the death of a British woman exposed
to the Novichok nerve agent.
“We don’t know that Russia has been mentioned or associated with this,”
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, referring to the
poisoning of two British citizens exposed to Novichok near Salisbury, where
former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in
March.
“We consider that in any case it would be quite absurd.”
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