{"id":76611,"date":"2018-04-19T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76611"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:23:46","slug":"skripals-poisoning-highly-likely-staged-by-british-intelligence-russian-foreign-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/19\/skripals-poisoning-highly-likely-staged-by-british-intelligence-russian-foreign-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Skripals poisoning \u2018highly likely\u2019 staged by British intelligence \u2013 Russian Foreign Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"article__date\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Courtesy RT<\/time><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"article__date\"><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 19 Apr, 2018 16:30<\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__short-url\">\n<div class=\"short-url\"><a class=\"short-url__link\" href=\"https:\/\/on.rt.com\/93ms\">Get short URL<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">The UK\u2019s behavior after the Skripal incident suggests that the attack was organized by the British spy agencies or was at least beneficial for them, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"media  \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.04\/article\/5ad8bb70fc7e93ff308b458d.jpg\" alt=\"Skripals poisoning \u2018highly likely\u2019 staged by British intelligence \u2013 Russian Foreign Ministry\" width=\"745\" height=\"419\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<div class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\">Soldiers wearing protective suits seal a bin in Salisbury, Britain on March 10, 2018. \u00a9 Peter Nicholls \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p><em>It was highly likely that the false-flag incident with the poisoning of the Russian citizens in Salisbury was beneficial for, or perhaps organized by, the British intelligence services in order to mar Russia and its political leadership,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Zakharova told a news conference in Moscow on Thursday, markedly using the same phrase regarding probability as London officials and their allies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arcticle__read-more read-more\">\n<div class=\"read-more__title\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/424581-chlorine-germany-bombs-uk-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"read-more__cover\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.04\/thumbnail\/5ad89552dda4c8d9098b45c9.jpg\" alt=\"A destroyed street in Douma in Eastern Ghouta on April 16, 2018 \u00a9 Louai Beshara\" \/><span class=\"read-more__footer\">Containers with chlorine from Germany, smoke bombs from UK&#8217;s Salisbury found in E. Ghouta \u2013 Moscow<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Such a false-flag operation would perfectly fit into the\u00a0<em>general Russophobe course of the [UK] Conservative government to demonize our country,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the spokeswoman stated, adding that the UK has\u00a0<em>frequently committed such acts in the past.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>National Defense Strategy of the UK and the banquet speech of PM Theresa May at the end of last year,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0also contribute to such version of events, according to Zakharova. The document and May\u2019s speech have clearly envisioned\u00a0<em>countering Russia\u201d<\/em>\u00a0as one of the main priorities for the UK.<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s actions in the aftermath of the attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia on March 4 in the town of Sailsbury have raised many questions in Moscow. Russia says the UK did everything possible to disrupt the investigation and conceal facts, while squarely pinning the blame on Moscow. Russia has vehemently denied the allegations and repeatedly urged the UK to show some proof, or at least make information on the incident publicly available.<\/p>\n<p><em>The firm refusal to cooperate with Russia on the Salisbury poisoning investigation, London\u2019s violations of the consular convention, reluctance to cooperate with the OPCW and concealment of the basic data to conduct a transparent investigation are the shining proofs of that,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Zakharova concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy RT Published time: 19 Apr, 2018 16:30 Get short URL The UK\u2019s behavior after the Skripal incident suggests that the attack was organized by the British spy agencies or was at least beneficial for them, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. Soldiers wearing protective suits seal a bin in Salisbury, Britain on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}