Russia Accuses U.K., U.S. of Poisoning Spy to Maintain Western Unity
- U.K., U.S. secret services carried out attack, Russia says
- EU says Russia must answer U.K.’s questions at OPCW meeting
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Russia’s spy chief accused the U.K. and the U.S. of poisoning a former double agent to maintain Western unity against Moscow, as the European Union cleaved hard to its support for the British government’s line of blaming the Kremlin for the attack.
The nerve-agent attack was a “grotesque provocation” carried out by U.S. and British secret services,” as part of the West’s fight against the “so-called Russian threat,” Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, told a security conference in Moscow on Wednesday.