Russia’s deputy prosecutor general on Monday accused Britain of refusing to cooperate on the investigation into the killing of a former spy, at a briefing on the deaths of other Russians in the UK.
Saak Karapetyan said the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter was a pretext for an “anti-Russian campaign” as he drew parallels with the killing of spy Alexander Litvinenko and the death of oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
“In the three cases, British authorities... Refused any cooperation with Russia and kept secret the result of their own enquiry,” he said. “We want to cooperate, we suggest cooperation but (the British) have other ideas and other points of view on the question,” he said.
“In the three cases, the Russian secret services have been falsely accused of using poisons on British territory, which has allowed each time to launch calls for sanctions against Russia,” Karapetyan added.