U.K. Eyes Next Move After Claim of Russian Nerve Agent Stockpile
- Putin denies role in poisoning of double agent in England
- Kremlin has been developing chemical weapons, Johnson says
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s government will consider further action against Russia this week after it accused Moscow of stockpiling Novichok, the nerve agent used to poison a former spy and his daughter in western England.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will brief his European counterparts in Brussels on Monday, after rejecting a Russian suggestion that a British laboratory may have been the source of the substance that has left double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia fighting for their lives.