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Putin says Russia identified two Skripal suspects, ‘they are civilians’
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Sept 12, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – President Vladimir Putin
said on Wednesday that Russia had identified two men Britain suspects of
poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal with a military-grade nerve agent, saying
they were civilians.
“We know who they are, we have found them,” Putin told an economic forum
in the presence of Japan’s Shinzo Abe and China’s Xi Jinping in the far
eastern city of Vladivostok.
“They are civilians, of course,” he said, apparently responding to a claim
by the British authorities that the two suspects are members of Russia’s
military intelligence agency.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1316 hrs