Putin to Britain: Let's forget about the Skripal poisoning

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS JUNE 6, 2019 / 9:12 AM / UPDATED 12 HOURS AGO

Putin to Britain: Let's forget about the Skripal poisoning

Vladimir Soldatkin, Andrew Osborn
3 MIN READ

ST PETERSBURG/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped Britain’s next prime minister would forget about the poisoning of a former double agent in England last year in order to improve battered ties.

The poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury with a nerve agent prompted a wave of diplomatic expulsions and recriminations with ties between London and Moscow shriveling to a post-Cold War low in its wake.

British prosecutors have since charged two Russian military intelligence officers, known by the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, with attempted murder in their absence, though the Kremlin has repeatedly denied Russian involvement.

Putin, speaking to media on the sidelines of an economic forum in St Petersburg, said he hoped whoever succeeded Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister would see what he described as the bigger picture and move on from the Skripal incident.

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2. Obviously the fix is in to make "Boris" the next PM

Putin is setting the stage for "normalized relations" with GB and Boris.

as yet another Putin "useful idiot" assumes a position of world leadership.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. I wonder if

He would say the same thing if a country retaliated?