"The March 4 poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia was a grotesque provocation rudely staged by the British and U.S. intelligence agencies" the director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday during at an international security conference in Moscow.
"The poisoning was the latest U.S. effort to undermine Russia and was akin to its practices during the Cold War", Naryshkin added.
“Washington has become fixated with the fight against a non-existent, so-called Russian threat. This has reached such proportions and acquired such absurd characteristics that it’s possible to speak of a return to the dark times of the Cold War,” the director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service concluded.
"Even in the Skripal case, a grotesque provocation crudely concocted by U.S. and British security services, some European governments are not following London and Washington blindly but are instead choosing to carefully make sense of what happened", Naryshkin said.
