Russia Wants Access To Ex-Spy In U.K.

On March 4th it had been exactly one year since a former Russian double agent and his daughter were found poisoned in the British city of Salisbury. Tuesday the Russian government accused U.K. authorities of violating an international treaty by not granting them access to the two. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were discovered collapsed on a park bench near a shopping mall on March 4, 2018. The laboratory results revealed that they had been exposed to the Novichok nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Russia however denies any involvement.
In a recent news conference Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's deputy ambassador to the U.N., questioned the British narrative that blames Russia for the attack. "We still don't know who did it, why and how, one year on," he said. "All our efforts to cooperate with the British side are being constantly rejected. They don't want to listen. They expect us only to tell them: either President Putin did this himself or he lost control of the people who did this."

By: Bry Walker

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/05/700277978/russia-wants-access-to-ex-spy-in-u-k