Russian president denounces ‘ungrounded accusations’ after UK nerve agent incidents
Tehran (KNA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again strongly rejected “ungrounded accusations” leveled by the British government against Russia that Moscow could have been behind two separate cases of poisoning incidents in which, according to the UK authorities, a woman has so far lost her life and three others have been injured by a nerve agent in southern England.
"We just see the ungrounded accusations - why is it done this way? Why should our relationship be made worse by this?" asked the Russian leader in an interview with Fox News on Monday, adding, "We would like to get documentary evidence but nobody gives it to us.
"On July 4, the UK counter-terrorism police said that they had found two British citizens, a couple identified as Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, in Amesbury, claiming that they had been affected by Novichok, a chemical weapon purportedly developed under a secret Soviet program, three days earlier.
Four days later, British police announced that Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three, died in hospital following an unexplained exposure to the chemical agent.What happened in Amesbury
Source: PressTV