Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview to Timur Siraziev on Chann | Russian MFA 🇷🇺

Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview to Timur Siraziev on Channel One Russia, 4 March, 2023

The situation has hardly changed since the Skripal poisoning. There is no new information or at least some element which would have clarified the situation.

The political context has changed. Previously it had been the main irritant which paved way for the UK to start destroying the bilateral relations. Now there are several such factors, such irritants, which are being intertwined in the general anti-Russian policy aimed at weakening our country.

The whole situation started to change after the return of Crimea to Russia. However, it was indeed one of the first bricks of the information and psychological manipulation by the UK of its allies in order to bring them to a broader confrontational course against Russia, which has now turned into a military-political confrontation, which we can see today in Ukraine.

I consider what has happened to the Skripals to be a well-planned and well-orchestrated intentional provocation. It cannot be otherwise, as the British side has instantly refused any interaction offered by the Russian side. This tells us that this was purely a provocation.

The same conclusion can be drawn from the reaction of the British establishment, parliamentarians who, without waiting for any proof or results of at least attempts to investigate the case, started to make statements with “highly likely” accusations against Russia. Neither did they later try to get to the bottom of what has happened. It was basically stating that this and that happened and that Russia is to blame.

We have been forwarding request on a regular basis. Their total has now reached 65, with most recent ones forwarded several months ago.

There will be another one this upcoming anniversary. After all, the Skripals are Russian citizens and we need to know where they are, what is happening to them.

Maybe at some point we will find out. However, our requests, apart from purely formal replies, remain unanswered by the British authorities.


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Read Embassy report "SALISBURY: FIVE YEARS OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS":
https://london.mid.ru/en/countries/bilateral-relations/salisbury/

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